Library cards! Who has one?

[alfsauve]

I have one, have had one, for many years.  Especially since my wife is a librarian.  It's sort of required.

However, the local county deletes inactive cards after about 6 months, so since I only go once every year or two, I have to get a new card each time.  The last time, I was there the lady at checkout, said for me to check out a cheap, trashy dime paperback, then throw it away and ignore the fine.  Because I would then have an unpaid "fine" the system will never purge my record.  Plus the fine would never amount to more the $2.50 (value of the cheap paperback) and they'd never pursue any "legal action".   

Oh the last item I checked out was Unintended Consequences.  A subversive book that I'm sure landed me on the watch list.  Currently going for between $100 and $300 now.    Not available on iKindebookpad thingys.

[ellis4538]

I get a lot of books to read from a buddy of mine.  He gets them from friends and relatives also.  Sometimes I will find something I enjoy in a series, triology or whatever and I can get the others from the library so a LC is a must for me.

FWIW


Richard

[Timothy]

I used to get books from a guy my mom grew up with in Minnesota!  Her second uncle I think, a guy by the name of Schulz, I think his first name was Charlie...some of you may have seen his works!

 

Light reading at best!  The characters never changed but I never got tired of Lucy pulling the football just in time!   

[tombogan03884]

I used to get books from a guy my mom grew up with in Minnesota!  Her second uncle I think, a guy by the name of Schulz, I think his first name was Charlie...some of you may have seen his works!

 

Light reading at best!  The characters never changed but I never got tired of Lucy pulling the football just in time!   

I don't know how long ago that was Tim, but I was living in CA when Charles M Schultz died there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_M._Schulz

Schulz and his family returned to Minneapolis and stayed until 1958. They then moved to Sebastopol, California, where Schulz built his first studio. It was here that Schulz was interviewed for the unaired television documentary A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Some of the footage was eventually used in a later documentary, Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz. The original documentary is available on DVD from the Charles M. Schulz Museum.

Schulz's father died while visiting him in 1966, the same year his Sebastopol studio burned down. By 1969, Schulz had moved to Santa Rosa, California, where he lived and worked until his death.

Charles Schulz died in his sleep at home around 9:45 p.m. on February 12, 2000. Although he was dying of cancer, he suffered a fatal heart attack. The last original Peanuts strip was published the very next day, on Sunday, February 13, 2000, just hours after his death the night before. Schulz was buried at Pleasant Hills Cemetery in Sebastopol, California.[29]

[Timothy]

Mom was born in Minneapolis in 1926 and her sister was 10 or 12 years older.  Mom is half Norwegian and my grandma was a Halverson.  We used to get boxes of books when we were kids at X-mas until the late sixties.  My mom and her sister tried to visit him in Santa Rosa back in the mid 80's but to no avail.  He wasn't in town at the time.  Other than that, most of what I know of their relationship died with her.  I suppose I could get some details from Madelyn (my aunt and Godmother) but it's old history now.

Coincidentally, my mom called me Sparky when I was a kid...

[Sponsor]

[tombogan03884]

Mom was born in Minneapolis in 1926 and her sister was 10 or 12 years older.  Mom is half Norwegian and my grandma was a Halverson.  We used to get boxes of books when we were kids at X-mas until the late sixties.  My mom and her sister tried to visit him in Santa Rosa back in the mid 80's but to no avail.  He wasn't in town at the time.  Other than that, most of what I know of their relationship died with her.  I suppose I could get some details from Madelyn (my aunt and Godmother) but it's old history now.

Coincidentally, my mom called me Sparky when I was a kid...

Get the details while you still can . It is history and put a personal face on an historic figure.
In fact, get them to do a video or tape about what America used to be like, it's "living history".

[Timothy]

Get the details while you still can . It is history and put a personal face on an historic figure.
In fact, get them to do a video or tape about what America used to be like, it's "living history".

Madelyn has made some history all of her own.  She's been an author most of her life and is probably in every grade school library in the US with her line of youth textbooks.

[lhprop1]

I've got a library card and I'm not afraid to use it.

It's one of the things I'm happy to contribute tax money to.