As my favorite library prof. used to say, "Never underestimate the power
of serendipity."
Chas. Gaunce
Law Librarian
University of Texas at El Paso
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From: owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu [mailto:owner-law-lib@ucdavis.edu] On
Behalf Of Podboy, Alvin
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2005 9:22 AM
To: law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Library card - redux
Law-lib, As life would have it, I was reading a fairly new book by one
of my favorite authors, Anne Lamott, last night. The book entitled PLAN
B: FURTHER THOUGHTS ON FAITH has a chapter "good friday world" with the
following quotation at pages 142 - 143: "It was my mother who taught me
how to wander the racks of the Belvedere-Tiburon library, and wander
through a book, letting it take me where it would. She and my father
took me to the library every week when I was little. One of her best
friends was the librarian. They both taught me that if you insist on
having a destination when you come into a library, you're shortchanging
yourself. They read to live, the way they also went to the beach, or
ate delicious food. Reading was like breathing fresh ocean air, or
eating tomatoes from old man Grbac's garden. My parents, and librarians
along the way, taught me about the space between words; about the
margins, where so many juicy moments of life and spirit and friendship
could be found. In a library, you can find small miracles and truth,
and you might find something that will make you laugh so hard that you
will get shushed, in the friendliest way. I have found sanctuary in
libraries my whole life, and there is sanctuary there now, from war,
from the storms of our families and our own minds. Libraries are like
mountains or meadows or creeks: scared space. So this afternoon, I'll
walk to the library." Perhaps we should take people who haven't been to
a library in a while... for a visit. Al of Cleveland
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