Every once in a while, the effect of libraries on Lynn and me comes to mind. https://fearfunandfiloz.blogspot.com/search?q=enoch
Besides the pages the link leads to, I asked Lynn on our first date in college when we met in the library. One thing still leads to another 60 years later.
There are college majors in reading and in literature. These days we have many libraries that do not house books but films or music. Covid-19 has put many activities online and every Zoom session can be recorded. We may be headed for Zoom libraries of talks, presentation, much like the giant collection of TED talks and the many YouTube videos already available.
Lynn was a 2nd grade teacher but later became an elementary school librarian, then a high school librarian, then a professor of library science. I read that in the old times of library beginnings, the best hope of finding a book was not the card catalog (what's a card catalog?) but asking a librarian who might know where the book was.
https://thenewstack.io/death-card-catalog-taught-us-data-migration/
We all remember what Emily Dickerson said,"There is no frigate like a book" or in modern language "there is nothing like a friggin book". Which reminds me of the young reader who surprised his teacher by reading "An African Elephant" saying "a frickin elephant".
You may be able to sense from the tight, focused language in this post that I am experiencing a little stir-crazy cabin/Covid fever.
