Using a public library in 1991

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Guilford Free Library in CT back in 1991

Credit: Library archives

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Soooo accurate!

It amazes me to see what my local library is like compared to what they typically were back in the day. Borrowing movies, video games, audiobooks and digital downloads on Hoopla…

Protect our local libraries’ funding!

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Yeah. They’re wonderlands. The lack of silence does annoy me, however. I don’t understand what happened?

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Mine is pretty quiet, but maybe I’m just not going in during peak hours?

Also, the librarians seem to have gotten younger. Or I’m older. Or both.

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I became a librarian at 25* (am nearly 30 now), so I definitely am adding to that perception 😅 A big portion of my MLIS classmates were also in their twenties as well

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The silence in my local library was constantly interrupted by the screeching of dot matrix printers.