UNIVERSITY HEIGHTS BRANCHVisiting Time: 12:30-1:30PM
Did I get lost on my way? No (Twice in a row!)
Book Checked Out: Revelations: The Autobiography of Alvin Ailey (Alvin Ailey with Peter Bailey)
Book Selection: 2 bookmarks
Seating: 2 bookmarks
Staff: 4 bookmarks
Architecture/Atmosphere: 3 bookmarks
Total: 11 bookmarks
I have decided that, while on this thirty-six-day tour, I will no longer check out a book from an author I've already read. I also can't check anything out that's too "safe," as interpreted by me. Today I left the branch with Alvin Ailey's autobiography, Revelations. All I knew about Ailey was that he had a famous dance troupe. In the book, Ailey says that as a black child in the South, he didn't experience racism... Because he never saw any white people. Wow. They say books can take you to totally foreign places...
The librarian I spoke with, Jennifer, told me this branch opened in 1956. At the time, there was an ostrich farm (Bentley's) nearby. This was also a branch with a Bookmobile. The library's bottom floor was once for the Bookmobile, but is now used for a book sale on the third Sunday of every month. (The floor's not up to code, though, so browse at your own risk.).
Pictures:
(Simple, sturdy wooden shelves.)
(Mural on the outside. Look for the ostrich on left side.)
(Side view. The bookmobile used to pull up inside of those support poles.)
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