healthscireflib

Librarian, of the reference variety, specializing in health sciences. Working at a campus library for a community college. Answering questions, keeping it real, drinking all the coffee, busting all the myths.
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“ A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold, rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen, instead. A human with a brain and a heart and a desire to be uplifted, rather than a customer with a credit card and an inchoate “need” for “stuff.” A mall—the shops—are places where your money makes the wealthy wealthier. But a library is where the wealthy’s taxes pay for you to become a little more extraordinary, instead. A satisfying reversal. A balancing of the power.

Caitlin Moran, “Libraries: Cathedrals of Our Souls.”

This is the most incredible thing I’ve read today. Caitlin, we should be friends. Call me.

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