Dear Readers:
Not sure about you, but we can remember when we were handed our very first library card. For most of us, not only was it our first piece of identification, but also it felt as if that library card was the key to the door of discovery.
Today’s children, of course, have the World Wide Web to connect them to what mysteries are in their textbooks and to satisfy the curiosities in their minds, and many may believe the Internet has effectively replaced what a public library can offer. Some people, in fact, believe technology has erased the need for the traditional “building of books,” but here in Ohio County, W.Va., our public library has become a community for shared knowledge for people of all ages.
Not only does the tiny staff at the Ohio County Public Library continue to offer local children conventional programming, but adults are engaged often with programs like “Lunch with Books” the “People’s University” because those sessions offer chances to learn more and more about where we live and who was here before us.
And now the library employees are asking for our help on Election Day because, well, funding is funding and dollars must make sense so the public library can remain a complement to what the machines do today and what they’ll be capable of next.
Sincerely,
Your Fellow Page Turners
