First off, I LOVE library's!  I grew up reading in the NYPL and Bodleian; matured in the BPL and unfortunately middle aged in lvccld.  The lvccld-sigh and sob-especially the Summerlin branch-My local bibliotheca is a vast windowless modern, yet decaying structure that contains very few tomes and not even the faintest whiff of that atheneum aphrodisiac-old paper and wood. \n\nThe last book I checked out of there was stuck together with crusty vintage boogers. Being the VERY delicate flower that I am, I was traumatically disgusted by the corpulence of snot on that book and refuse to bring home any books from any library ever again. \n\nI was there to renew my library card and use their online databases.  This is not Borges' Library of Babel!