Carnegie Library

This was my library growing up and I LOVE it still. I pop in from time to time when I need a book and I’m in the area. Its gotten a major facelift since my younger days, but I still remember what it looked like when I won a poster contest and I got to meet Sophie Masloff here.
Lots of good books, including new releases and the not so new stuff is great too. I wanted some photography books and expected to have to request them, but they had just what I needed.

We’ve had a Carnegie branch here for as long as I’ve been alive which has moved around a bit on Brookline Boulevard.
This is a really sleek, modern library, and it easily this branch’s best incarnation ever. They have internet, DVD’s, magazines, newspapers, CD’s, a big children’s section downstairs, couches to sit on, and a pretty healthy selection of books.
They even have a section for «graphic novels» a.k.a. comic books, and it’s in plain sight, so people must be reading them. That’s a very good thing by the way. And it wasn’t just superheroes either. In fact, displayed prominently was «Black Hole» by Charles Burns. Don’t let your youngsters read that one until they’re in high school. :D
Man, if they served coffee, you could loaf here all day.
I wonder if my library card is still good. Hmmm.
Anyway, I really pray that this branch doesn’t get cut. We’ve taken it for granted. I really should use it more often and not just when my internet goes kaput.