{"id":3454,"date":"2016-10-07T04:43:06","date_gmt":"2016-10-07T11:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2016-10-06T21:53:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-07T04:53:55","slug":"in-praise-of-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/in-praise-of-libraries","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3456 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/beautiful_library.jpg\" alt=\"Beautiful Library\" width=\"636\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/beautiful_library.jpg 636w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/beautiful_library-300x241.jpg 300w, http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/beautiful_library-500x401.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Maria Popova has a wonderful new article at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/\">Brain Pickings<\/a>\u00a0titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/2016\/10\/06\/libraries-storycorps-bookmobile\/\">How Libraries Save Lives<\/a>.&#8221; Libraries have always been important to me, and to be honest, if I would have grown up near a college that offered a Master of Library Science degree, then I may well have ended up a librarian instead of a teacher.<\/p>\n<p>In her article, Popova offers a fine collection of quotes and stories in praise of libraries, as well as links to reflections, essays, and art work. You&#8217;ll find tributes from Ursula LeGuin, Nikki Giovanni, Henry David Thoreau, and Maurice Sendak. But at the heart of her article is a moving video called &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=11OvHcgh-E4\">The Bookmobile<\/a>&#8221; from <a href=\"https:\/\/storycorps.org\/\">StoryCorps<\/a>, and it&#8217;s so good I can&#8217;t resist reposting it here.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Bookmobile\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11OvHcgh-E4?feature=oembed&#038;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not only are libraries of great worth because of the books they preserve and the service the provide, but many are also of great aesthetic value. For a magnificent display of the beauty of the library buildings themselves, see Ahmet Ertug&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.templesofknowledge.com\/\"><em>Temples of Knowledge: Historical Libraries of the Western World<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maria Popova has a wonderful new article at Brain Pickings\u00a0titled &#8220;How Libraries Save Lives.&#8221; Libraries have always been important to me, and to be honest, if I would have grown up near a college that offered a Master of Library Science degree, then I may well have ended up a librarian instead of a teacher. In her article, Popova offers a fine collection of quotes and stories in praise of libraries, as well as links to reflections, essays, and art work. You&#8217;ll find tributes from Ursula LeGuin, Nikki&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3456,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[695,693,694,692,696,55],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-books","tag-ahmet-ertug","tag-brain-pickings","tag-libraries","tag-maria-popova","tag-temples-of-knowledge","tag-video","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/beautiful_library.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pOucj-TI","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3465,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions\/3465"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/nicksenger.com\/onecatholiclife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}