The library saved her. Now she wants to save the library. I'm a librarian. Every day I encounter people. I serve the regulars, the crime enthusiastics, the bookworms, the homeless, the eccentrics, the jobless, the teenagers, the toddlers, the aged. I know my community well. And they know me. The library is a sanctuary for some, a place for warmth for others and, on many occassi...(展开全部)

Meet an unforgettable bibliophile Elizabeth Brown doesn't like to play with dolls and she doesnt like to skate. What she does like to do is read books. Lots of books. The only problem is that her library has gotten so big she can't even use her front door anymore. What should Elizabeth Brown do? Start her own public library, of course! With charming verse and watercolors Sarah...(展开全部)

黃茉莉天生爱读书。小时候，大家喜欢洋娃娃、溜冰鞋，她只喜欢读书；长大后，大家约会、跳舞，她依然只喜欢读书。黃茉莉喜欢读书、喜欢书，并且收藏书，但是，有一天，家里再也容不下任何一本书了，爱书成痴的黃茉莉该怎么办呢？

Meet an unforgettable bibliophile Elizabeth Brown doesn't like to play with dolls and she doesnt like to skate. What she does like to do is read books. Lots of books. The only problem is that her library has gotten so big she can't even use her front door anymore. What should Elizabeth Brown do? Start her own public library, of course! With charming verse and watercolors Sarah...(展开全部)

黃茉莉天生爱读书。小时候，大家喜欢洋娃娃、溜冰鞋，她只喜欢读书；长大后，大家约会、跳舞，她依然只喜欢读书。黃茉莉喜欢读书、喜欢书，并且收藏书，但是，有一天，家里再也容不下任何一本书了，爱书成痴的黃茉莉该怎么办呢？

On the morning of April 28, 1986, a fire alarm sounded in the Los Angeles Public Library. As the moments passed, the patrons and staff who had been cleared out of the building realized this was not the usual fire alarm. As one fireman recounted, “Once that first stack got going, it was ‘Goodbye, Charlie.’” The fire was disastrous: it reached 2000 degrees and burned for more tha...(展开全部)

From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Ten Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in 2020. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and...(展开全部)

'All I did was go to the library to borrow some books'. On his way home from school, the young narrator of The Strange Library finds himself wondering how taxes were collected in the Ottoman Empire. He pops into the local library to see if it has a book on the subject. This is his first mistake. Led to a special 'reading room' in a maze under the library by a strange old man, h...(展开全部)