brought me to the library alone that day was my I had moved into reading and my
mother always knew I was such a big fan of reading books and she I came from a
low-income family we never really I never had enough money to go buy me a
book out of stores and she said hey you know down the block on the fifth and
Franklin there's a public library you can go to they have tons of books there
there's got to be something you like so I came down well with my mother and she
made me my library card at the front desk
and I took myself over to the team department where I grabbed my first
couple books and you know I went home and the next day I met you know and I
always wonder like what the thing that brought me back to this building was my
love of reading and getting to know more than I already knew that was always a
big part of me as a person was I want to know everything and you know books I
think are a great way of that is that you can oh you can pick anything off any
shelf and you'll find something new you'll learn something new I think it's
just the just the atmosphere and wanting to learn more that always brought me
back and the reason I came here originally I would say is a combination
of wanting to know more wanting to read all the time and just wanting to find a
place to hang out as you know when I did move and when I every time I moved I
always felt like something was missing you know I always felt lonely I would be
at home I had nowhere to go you know it wasn't I know they had that place to go
to that place to hang out with others that place to interact with other people
you know I had you know I went to other schools yeah you know I met people there
but it was never the same connection that I had with a building like this
building you know so when I would come back you know I would like to God knows
how many times I have to come back when I would come back here you know I would
meet again I'd meet more people I've been affected in my own way but
I've seen other people come in here one type of the person you know they come in
a very depressed upset person and then they'll you know me and the people here
they're come out of a completely happy excited completed for person you know as
if you would never suspect never met him before you know this library it
touches a lot of people a lot of people's hearts especially on the other
community here because I this place gets a lot of people you know and they
wouldn't be getting a lot of people if the community here wasn't affected by
the the programs that the adults have the children have the teens have if you
know if it wasn't for that you know male-female anybody that quacks see here
kid you know any kid you know I guess I was a kid I came in and I felt like you
know I was huh you know at another home you know I felt like welcomed and I
think that's the most important part of a library is you need the person needs
to feel welcomed and feel like this is a place they can come to all the time and
come to when they're not you know when they're upset or when they have nowhere
else to go this is the perfect place