Ted, Ted, Ted

About every other week Laura and I go to the branch library, which has evening hours on Wednesdays. Lately we have been taking Lillian along, which means we get less reading done at the library. We make up for it by taking out more books. Laura is pretty much finished having me suggest books for her, although I do get to point out shelves that she might want to pick from. Her tastes run to prehistoric stuff and humor. She could be into Barbie and Barney Golden Books, for all I care; what matters is that she is at home in the library. The library is about much more than books, of course. Here is Marc Crispin Miller on how much more: “We live in a time (now I’m going to sound archaic but I think it is the most appropriate word) of propaganda. It is a time of unprecedented mass saturation of various propaganda, be they political or commercial. Advertising is a form of propaganda. In contrast, the function of the library, like the function of the school, is to help us to become better citizens by introducing us to other points of view.”