Being able to criss-cross the globe on the strength of the Internet has made it possible to engage with creative ideas, conversations, and experiences which otherwise would be beyond our reach—and at times, even beyond our imagination. On The Same Page will bring to the reader of Torchlight, a combination of textual-audio-visual curated content, about and around libraries and bookish love.
Think libraries and one does think about rules, about silence. about overdue fines. Here, we look at libraries and rules, to see if there are rules we must keep but maybe – just maybe -there are a few that are quite unnecessary!
Cookie Monster in the Library – Really ?
The Library brings to mind books, but it also brings to mind rules. Here is how Mike Thaler imagines them in The Librarian From Black Lagoon.
A biography on Anne Carroll Moore reminds us that the SILENCE board was removed over 100 years back from children’s rooms in the public library.
But rules still dominate so much of our library lives. Except when they are broken and we learn that rules are guidelines not end lines.
Libraries are a common. They belong to all of us and no one says it better than Oliver Jeffers in This Moose Belongs to Me.