Comments on: The Medium Is Not The Message https://booksquare.com/the-medium-is-not-the-message/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&%23038;utm_campaign=the-medium-is-not-the-message Dissecting the publishing industry with love and skepticism Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:57:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Susan Gable https://booksquare.com/the-medium-is-not-the-message/#comment-14256 Thu, 30 Dec 2004 14:57:35 +0000 http://www.booksquare.com/archives/2004/12/28/882/#comment-14256 First memory of the library?? Gosh, that’s a tough one for me, too, because we were always at the library. My town had this tiny library and a wonderful librarian who let me check out as many books as I wanted. I also have fond memories of the summer reading programs where, for every book read, you would get, say, a construction paper hot air balloon, and you’d write your name and title of the book on it and it would be placed on the bulletin board. (And once out of room, on the walls of the library) It will be no surprise to anyone who knows me that I was full of hot air…balloons. (G)

I was saddened to discover when I took my son to his first library summer reading program here in Erie that the children were given various prizes just for walking in the library door. No actual reading required. (sigh) Perhaps because the children who didn’t read as many books would feel badly when seeing how many books others read? I have no idea.

I also recall that the summer I’d finally mastered the card catalog, my library was moving, and didn’t actually have a card catalog availible to patrons.

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