Take Your Child to the Library Day Launches
On more than one occasion, I’ve paraded through town with a rag-tag group of teenage boys to the local public library—both here in Chicago and back when I worked on the reservation in New York.
Many of the kids didn’t really know where to start—how do I get a card? How long can I keep things? Can I use the computers? Can we talk? What’s over there? Where are the Wimpy Kid books? DO YOU HAVE THE WIMPY KID BOOKS?
I took a young man with a talent for music production, who wanted to learn about copyright, and I dropped him off with the music librarians at the Harold Washington Library downtown (not the most kid-friendly place, at first glance. There are no books in view, and the first people you see are security officers). He came back, in all surprise—“They were so nice! And they know what they’re talking about!”
Kids learn through experience and they learn through our example. Take them to the library.
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I think this should be a once a week occurrence if not more, but whatever we can do to promote how important libraries...
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from experience. A day...library can be like an adventure! Show
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