Library. I love the public library. I only live about six blocks away and I’m at the library two to three times every week. (And no, it’s not just because of the cute guy who works there. Sheesh.)
The old Walker Library. It’s been a thrift store and a spa and is currently sitting empty and for lease.
Across Hennepin Avenue, the new(er), mostly underground Walker Library.
The library is underneath this lawn!
While Chaos has never been to the library (I’m thinking he would be a bit disruptive), he is very fond of library books…
I love the library too, my kids and I go every week. Our local library has little kids reading nooks and my girls get their books and sit in there. Love the pictures.
I used to love libraries. But I loved the kind I grew up with, that were solemn and silent and reading was a sacred activity, not to be disturbed. My local libraries are such noisy places…bleh. Makes me sad. However, I have been known to drop in at the U of M libraries–those are peaceful places. Unfortunately I’m rarely in the neighborhood.
rofl I’m laughing my head off at him walking around with paper bags on his head lol It must be 24 hrs of entertainment at your house!
Our county library is only a couple of miles from our house – one of my favorite places – the Neatnik’s, too.
Oh I’m so jealous. Our library is right around the corner but they have very few English books. I’d have to travel far for those. I think I’ve also read every one of their knitting books.
We love libraries, too. It’s great to live in a city with lots of libraries… we usually go to a different one every week. Great pic’s!
I love libraries too. I grew up going to a lovely public library that’s the central hub of a library network. Unfortunately, my local library now is less lovely, and a bit musty. But, it still has books for free, which makes it OK by me!
This summer, we will go to the library every other week! Usually we’re too lazy and just go to Half Price book stores, which is much further, to buy books!
Hooray for libraries! Great post!
I love libraries too. I wish they’d get more money in California. Some of the offerings lately have been downright skimpy.
that is one of the coolest libraries Ive seen! so lucky!
a bunch of artists/designers should lease the old one and make an awesome store in there.
Nice looking library – different! I love libraries too. We have a new bigger library now and I go regularly.
I love libraries! We try to make the storytime a couple of time a month. Boogie loves choosing her own books.
I love libraries too! I spent a lot of time in them when I was younger, and now that I’m an adult I go there for SnB as well as for books. As an added bonus, I can walk from the library to the ice cream parlor, and from the ice cream parlor to my LYS. I love how close together everything is!
Well here’s another way in which I’m failing. I’ve rarely been to either of the two mega-libraries near me. Probably because of the “mega”-ness of them. And the fact the Mr. Technology has made sure that there is wireless access to the internet in every corner of the house. “Books – we don’t need no stinkin books.”
I find that cats neither understand the quiet rule in the library.. or just simply choose to ignore it. Maybe if you told him there were books about cats and mice there.. he’d be more inclined to behave.
Choas is just so funny. I can only imagine the fun he would have at the library.
Hooray for public libraries!
(And those knitted tuna are *so* cute!)
Libraries! What’s not to love. Those letters are fabulous. That’s what I call art for the library. They had a mosaic in front of one of the….Livermore, I think, library that spelled a number of author’s names wrong!
Ours even has a knitting group meet on the first Tuesday of the month.
Chaos looks so darn cute in that bag by the book!
BTW, [indicates sidebar] is that what happens to you when you’re a SAL dropout? Did it appear there as just a friendly warning, or an omen of things to come?
Poor Walker #1, it looks so sad and lonely. It so obviously wants to be a Real Library again – do you think it’s been loved enough to be Real even when it’s been abandoned, like the Velveteen Rabbit?
… And what’s with the new one? I was hoping we’d gotten out of the Concrete Bunker School of Architecture. 😛
Speaking of ‘what’s with?’: is everyone having trouble with the pics on the Blogger blogs today? I can’t get any of the pics of your purple yarn, or most of the pics on today’s post… had the same trouble on Mrs. Pao’s blog, even after trying three different browsers. ???
~Eileen
I love the library. We go every week and get tons of books. The librarians all know us and will usually have any holds ready for us when we get up to the checkout desk.
I love libraries! I also love bookstores- anywhere people have been kind enough to put lots of books together for me. 🙂
I love the pictures of Chaos enjoying the bag and the book. It’s good that he knows how to make his own fun.
I love libraries too! Ours is very small. I love the idea of the library under the lawn!
Underground library sounds interesting. I can’t imagine it being bright and well lit like libraries are supposed to be. I love the pictures though!
That’s the coolest library ever.
ok, I HAVE to know more about the cute guy who works at the library!!!
Neat library. Growing up I loved to go to the library, if I wasn’t at the pool swimming I was at the library. But in illinois, if your community doesn’t have a library (like in my town of 900)you have to pay to get a library card. For us, it would be a couple $100 a year. So I no longer take advantage of the library system.
I really really miss my old college library — so many books (and eccentric ones too!) Our current library is very basic and very ‘popular’ type reading :o( Ha – Chaos made a mouse-watching tent out of your poor book!
I love the library too. I remember going as a kid during summer break. I decided I was going to read the entire junior section of fiction one year. Didn’t make it but I still love some of the books I made it through that summer.
Hey! I live only about six blocks from our local library branch, too.
Those pictures of Chaos with the bag on his head just make me howl with laughter.
I used to LOVE the library.
And a cute guy who works in a library? That’s gotta be worth the trip all by itself!
Very cool library sign! I love the library – but I’m trying not to go too much this summer so I can read some of the books I’ve had sitting around the house forever!
The Undergrad Library at the University of Illinois is also underground – meaning it’s often called the Underground Library, no the Undergrad Library. It has two stories underground, with a big atrium in the middle, so it has as much natural light as the above-ground library I work in now. And – possibly more than you want to know – the reason the UGL was builty underground is so that it wouldn’t cast a shadow on the Morrow Plots, the oldest experimental cornfield in the country (hey — it’s Illinois! Corn is important!)
The Undergrad Library at the University of Illinois is also underground – meaning it’s often called the Underground Library, no the Undergrad Library. It has two stories underground, with a big atrium in the middle, so it has as much natural light as the above-ground library I work in now. And – possibly more than you want to know – the reason the UGL was builty underground is so that it wouldn’t cast a shadow on the Morrow Plots, the oldest experimental cornfield in the country (hey — it’s Illinois! Corn is important!)
Oops – sorry about the double posting! The Internets were being uncooperative.
We have our weekly Stitch ‘n Bitch at the library. Fortunately, we usually have a meeting room. Otherwise, we get shushed a lot! I used to have a cat that loved paper grocery bags. She’d put her front paws and head in and scoot all over the house.
I drive by the Walker Library on my way to work every morning. I’ve tried to think of what the old library should be now, I think it would be the coolest house ever but probably a little big and hard to heat for that. The assortment of folks by the bus stop near the library each morning is great.
Great post! I love to hear about people enjoying their libraries! It warms this librarian’s heart 🙂 Great pics too – looks like they have a great space there.
Best wishes,
Lolly
well it looks like everyone loves libraries. i do too. unfortunately, my local libary isn’t opened on the weekends in the summer which is when i’d be most likely to go. i haven wonderful memories of hopping on my bike and riding down to the town library and spending hours in the stacks. i did just find out though, that i’m still allowed to check stuff out of the boston public library even though i don’t live there anymore. now that IS a library. the oldest free library in the country in fact (i looked that up for confirmation although i kind of knew that already)
Wow, i love your library – the fact it’s underground, those fabulous letters. Too fun!
I’d never heard of another underground library. I went to the U of Illinois and the library there was built underground so as not to throw shade on the corn. Yes, there was a corn patch that had been in exsistence pretty much since the college started.
That’s very cool – I love the letters that spell out library – I’ll bet kids like them too!