The Library

Some things just stick with you.

They may be milestone events like learning to walk, your first bike and the joy of cycling around where you live under your very own steam or going to uni.

One for me was the introduction to the Library as my first school didn't have have on just tiny collection of mainly reference books often well out of date and no story books around the age five.

Finding the Doctor Suess books was a great gateway to the idea that a story could be wildly imaginative with creative use of language.

As time went on you progressed around the children's section towards more junior fiction as, as fortunate we wore to have stories read to us in school especially when we had a bigger new building with a proper library of its own.

For me my problems with the library really started when it came to the time staff expected me to use the adult section which when you have reading difficulties that affect comprehension and with developmental issues the themes of fiction didn't align with me and my life.

I really needed to be able to access the teen section and move across to the adult bit for more technical or factual works but that just wasn't made available in this district so over time my usage of it beyond the reference section or the ability to borrow music dropped off.

Maybe things will change one day.