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And hungry, even though I had a perfectly good dinner at 7pm :-(

Stopped at the library tonight. Although my home library is Baldwin, I usually use the Freeport one. The Baldwin library is smaller, and now that it's a construction site (they're adding a new wing), it's a real mess. Freeport is only 5 minutes further. It's kind of funny going there, though, because it's in such a different neighborhood from mine. The ALA (American Library Association) does these posters urging people to read, and one series features celebrities holding books, with "Read" at the top in big letters. (A librarian friend of mine has the Ani DiFranco one in her living room, which I think is really cool). Well, the ones by the circulation desk at Freeport are Antonio Banderas, with "Lea" at the top, and the other is Edward James Olmos, with "Read" at the top and "Leer es Poder" (reading is power) underneath. There's also a pretty big collection of books in Spanish, both for kids and adults.

My sister's library (Forest Hills) has special Chinese and Russian collections. The city libraries are really pretty good at responding to their communities, though they're very underfunded :-(

Read it, and then see when it was written (date's at the bottom).

( Freedom to Read Statement )