You won’t believe this! I spent almost 40 minutes in the library at my lunch today. Borrowed two knitting books (Hot Knits and Learn to Crochet) and enjoyed little children’s paintings hanging all over in the room. It’s a small library and the people working there are also my council’s colleagues. I am supposed to meet them at a Xmas party on this Thursday evening at the QBN Park, but I didn’t even get a chance to walk in.

QBN Library is just seconds’ stroll from my office. I pass it by at least once a day because it’s right in the middle of the way to HACC, but I’ve never been here before. I don’t know why, not that I don’t like reading or maybe I have to say I rarely read, it’s just I am not very comfortable with a library environment where people all sit quietly and still. It’s weird I talked like this as if I had never been in an academic setting. Ironically I spent two third of my past time in different kinds of schools and unis and I am supposed to like that. I totally act the opposite way. I am not used to share a quiet place with other people. I’d rather being alone at home, searching the resource on the computer.

On the other hand, libraries never really gave me any surprise. I hardly can get the feeling from there that I am being lightened up by what I found. The good books always have been taken, and the left ones never make me fully satisfied, which constantly gives me the disappointment. And, for some areas, I do need some the most updated information which I can not really count on a library with slow updating speed. When you go through the shelf in one category, it’s a sad thing to come across too many books published in 70s and 80s, but very few from after 2004.

Anyway, I still like QBN library, like people love the birds living on the roof of their favourite house. It’s a fairly compact place, no more than 10 rows of book shelves, but being nicely laid out and no pressure on reader’s nerves. The life is immense, so are books. The tricky difference between a super huge library and a small country town library is that readers don’t sense that they might have too little knowledge about this world