A young patron’s sense of wonder at what the Toronto Public Library can offer her is super adorable. Libraries! This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “A Sense of Library Wonder”
You’re listening to A Way with Words, the show about language and how we use it. I’m Grant Barrett.
And I’m Martha Barnette. It’s not every day that I save a tweet and come back to it again and again, but I have one from a public service assistant for the Toronto Public Library. Her name is June Herr, and she tweeted this. At the library, a kid patron came up to me at the desk, asked me where she could find more mystery books, said she’d read her first mystery and had loved it so much.
So I led her over to the middle grade mystery series section. She placed a hand over her heart and whispered, oh my gosh. She was delighted to find the world had more of what she wanted from it. Yes, yes. And I can just relate to that on so many different levels. Just that moment of realizing what a library contains.
I remember very well going to the library and realizing you let me check out 12 books at one time so I could actually have enough to read over the weekend. Check out 12 books on a Friday and you were set till Monday.
Oh my gosh. And I feel that way too about doing a show about language. You know, people think, oh, it’s about grammar and correcting grammar. No, there’s so much more. It’s about the possibilities of language.
How much there is in this big cabinet. Yes. And all the connections that are hiding right there in plain sight.
We’d like to share those connections with you. Everything in plain sight will reveal it and make it known.
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