The article is here and Catherine's blog is here. It's really good.
Now, Toronto has all the problems of any big city but the library system is fantastic. My family and I use the library all the time. Our local is Beaches Branch:
The building was renovated a few years ago and it's terrific, right on Kew Gardens Park, a great place to do some research or just sit and read a book.
But the thing that makes the Toronto Library system so good is that I can go online and order any book (or CD or DVD) in the whole system and have it delivered to my local branch.
I grew up in a small, mostly english town in Quebec called Greenfield Park and the library was an old house on Chruchill Street. It had narrow, rickety stairs and the science fiction books I loved were shelved in what was the attic. Isaac Asimov should know how many fears I had to overcome to go get those books by myself.
Now, Greenfield Park has been incorporated into the city of Longueil and has a very nice library branch. It's still on Churchill, across the street from the old haunted house.
So, what's library system in your town like?
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We have three libraries in the community I live in. We go to the library at least once a week and usually more. All three are lovely, quiet places with lots of programs for all ages along with the expected stuff.
I live in Queens, one of the five boroughs of New York City. Queens has it's own library system, the Queensborough Public Library and has 62 branches. Because of the hugely diverse ethnic populations in Queens, each branch catalogues material in English and in the most commonly used languages of the neighborhood.
Libraries are THE BEST!
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