I can define my life with the libraries I have known, from the Carnegie-funded library in my home town, Portage, Wisconsin, to the library at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Worthington, Ohio (my first and forever love affair with the unabridged Oxford English Dictionary (OED), in 42 volumes), to the University (Law, Music, Philosophy) and city libraries in Madison, WI, to the New York City public library on 42nd St. and Fifth Ave. with the lions out front, the college library in River Falls, WI (History, Art), the University of Minnesota (Geography) and the St. Paul and Minneapolis public libraries (local history, government documents) and many decades now of science fiction, mysteries, and reading - and writing - GLBT material.
What did I leave out - oh, poetry, drama, political science, how to fix my ever-dying vehicles, the Minnesota Horticultural Society library, periodicals, films, video and audio tapes, recordings, lectures, language resources ... Too late to turn back for me! I'm in my second half-century of hanging around these outposts of civilization. No more Uptown Library and severe cutbacks on library access elsewhere. So how do you suppose the next youngster will come upon all these wonders? Watching reality TV? Living in shelters and on the street? Fred Markus, Horn Terrace, Ward Ten, in the Lyndale Neighborhood --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.459 / Virus Database: 258 - Release Date: 2/25/2003 TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
