How libraries have changed! I was always an avid reader and would visit our local library every week, and in the holidays I might have even visited every day! I read all the books in the children’s section and then borrowed my mum’s ticket to borrow books from the grown-ups section. The librarian was called Mr Horsepool!
The net great library for me was the Central Reference Library in Manchester… I spent so many hours working there, weeks of my life I add them all up! But I didn’t just work there, I would spend lovely hours browsing the shelves of the unusual books the collection held.
Now in Birmingham there is a fabulous new library – I suppose I shall only ever be a visitor not a borrower, but it is a wonderful place just to wander around! These days a library is so much more than a collection of books, I was told that even though it had been open less than six months it had already had 1,000,000 visitors!
Outside there was an exhibition about the history of the library… how times have changed, how libraries have changed,
…how librarians have changed!!
Lois Elsden 
Have you visited the John Rylands Library?
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Not for years and years and years! have you been recently?
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My wife is an avid reader and has been since she was a little girl.She grew up in Regina Saskatchewan Canada. Few people had cars and local buses were few and far between. So if the children couldn’t go to the library, the library came to them. It was called the bookmobile.She would walk three blocks every two weeks to wait for it to arrive, return the books and get new ones. I love reading history and science but my wife still loves her whodunits.
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Oh goodness, we still have one -it’s the library bus and it parks ion our village every Friday afternoon! I’ll try and get a picture of it for your wife!
I love whodunits… but also history too!
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