In the library there are pathways
you follow to find out what you want to know --
imagine -- somewhere in all these books
or on the face of the computer or in parentheses
at the back of a magazine, there is
the perfect sentence, the answer to your question,
the words all around you like
the tornado in the Wizard of Oz never
go home Dorothy -- Dorothy, never land --
language can be your bed, the
beautiful wonder of all possible poems.
We hope that we have given you renewed (pardon the pun) interest in the world of libraries. Keep borrowing!
See what librarians get up to in their spare time:
And today's poem:
Because of Libraries We Can Say These Things
by Naomi Shihab Nye
She is holding the book close to her body,
carrying it home on the cracked sidewalk,
down the tangled hill.
If a dog runs at her again, she will use the book as a shield.
She looked hard among the long lines
of books to find this one.
When they start talking about money,
when the day contains such long and hot places,
she will go inside.
An orange bed is waiting.
Story without corners.
She will have two families.
They will eat at different hours.
She is carrying a book past the fire station
and the five and dime.
What this town has not given her
the book will provide; a sheep,
a wilderness of new solutions.
The book has already lived through its troubles.
The book has a calm cover, a straight spine.
When the step returns to itself,
as the best place for sitting,
and the old men up and down the street
are latching their clippers,
she will not be alone.
She will have a book to open
and open and open.
Her life starts here.
Struggling with ebooks? Spare a thought for this monk:
And if you are having similar problems with eBooks, come in and see us in the Information Store, they are really quite easy to open when you know how. We have 3,000+ just waiting for you to explore.
And today's poem, by Emily Dickinson:
IN A LIBRARY
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is
To meet an antique book,
In just the dress his century wore;
A privilege, I think,
His venerable hand to take,
And warming in our own,
A passage back, or two, to make
To times when he was young.
His quaint opinions to inspect,
His knowledge to unfold
On what concerns our mutual mind,
The literature of old;
What interested scholars most,
What competitions ran
When Plato was a certainty.
And Sophocles a man;
When Sappho was a living girl,
And Beatrice wore
The gown that Dante deified.
Facts, centuries before,
He traverses familiar,
As one should come to town
And tell you all your dreams were true;
He lived where dreams were sown.
His presence is enchantment,
You beg him not to go;
Old volumes shake their vellum heads
And tantalize, just so.
Another personal favourite of mine - Cookie Monster visits the library.
Scroll down for the acrostic poem of the day.
Large are these houses where one find, Industries of the human mind: Bound and amassed in paper banks, Rough, smooth and some of highest ranks; And there are stored the treasures old, Rare, rare and precious fruits of gold: Indited by the quills of men, Einstein and Keats, and of women Sylvia Plath and Dickinson
If you fancy cooking Chinese tonight, or seeing if your Chinese astrological sign is compatible with someone else's, pop in and see our display of resources.
The stunning dragons were made by one of the Foundation Studies book groups.
Follow these links to go to online resources for your subject area:
> Blackboard homepage > Information Store > Subject Resources > Select your subject on the right > Scroll down for e-journals and recommended websites.
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