Soo yayy I made it to the library and had to find parking and pay for in the library parking lot. Must I say, this was one huge library. I picked a great one to visit! I am guilty as charged! When I walked in, I was very overwhelmed that I thought, let me check out the Friends room first. I confronted a lady behind the help desk and asked her about the room. She mentioned how it’s in the basement. I was like the basement? She said yes that I would have to go onto the elevator and it will take me down one floor to the basement. I followed her instructions and I ended up where needed to be. My eyes looked like this O O as I walked into the room!!!!!!!! I was like wow! This is one huge Friends room. I asked one of the volunteers where I could possibly find the children section. When I got there, I was blown away. You will see the pictures on this post and will be amazed by how much they have. I spent a good four hours in the Friends room. I purchased over 100 dollars in books. Some of the volunteers helped us by taking the books to the car because it was too much to take.
While we were walking to put the books into the car so I can browse the rest of the library, I ran into a lady who went by the name of Linda. She was surprised by how much I spend and introduced herself as the vice president of the Friends room. She was very, very friendly. I told her what my mission was in at the library and she started giving me brochure after brochure on the Friends room and how the library worked. I asked any questions I needed to ask to find out more about the library. One of the first things I asked was if she happened to know where the Media center was. I really wanted to find out where it was, what difference of it was to my library and so on. When she showed it to me, wow it was really nice. It had it’s own area of DVDs, vhs, movies, holds and a lot more. I love how it was separated from the rest of the library.
Another question I asked Linda is if there were any programs for adults as well as children. Well that is when she gave me another brochure and it had all the dates, times, and names of what they have available for the adults. Some examples of these include:
· Free Mathematics tutoring
· Free Bilingual classes
· Yoga classes
· Knit/Crochet Crafts
· SCORE Business Workshop
It’s all of these and so much more. The only thing is they are separated between the different public libraries. They are not all at the central branch. They also have many book sales that go on as well as free movie showings for families. What great things this library is doing, honestly. For those people that don’t have the money to go and do activities with their family. This is honestly a great place to visit and I really wish I were apart of this library. She showed me around quite a bit more taking me all the way to the sixth floor, which my mouth dropped for. Why in the world would there be so much room in the library. On the sixth floor, they have things like Genealogy, newspapers on microfilm, and magazines back issues. Fifth floor is for reference, Gov. docs, and Latino. I think the fourth floor she told me it was offices. The third floor is children’s, second is non-fiction and books in foreign language, and well first floor is where they have everything else. Here’s to keeping my fingers crossed for getting a library like that here or me moving to San Antonio. Haha! I had to thank her for her time and knowledge on the library. She told me I need to definitely return and stay longer and I took her up on that offer.
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