It's still not as good a general library as the one where my parents live, although I could be remembering that one with advantages. I know that the SF&F shelf was bigger in my parents' library (4 wide vertical sections x 5 shelves, plus a rotating thing for paperbacks as against 4 narrower sections x 4 shelves and no rotating thing) but the biography may be better here. I can't remember the sizes of general fiction or non-fiction.
I have discovered recently that they'll let you borrow things from what used to be the reference library, which increases the number of available books as long as you don't mind having very plain 1950s editions of everything.
My strategy for smaller libraries is to forget what I actually intended to read and just wander round to let myself be tempted by things. It's not so good for planning, but you get books either way, and it does actually demonstrate that people use libraries.
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Date: 2005-04-12 07:32 am (UTC)I have discovered recently that they'll let you borrow things from what used to be the reference library, which increases the number of available books as long as you don't mind having very plain 1950s editions of everything.
My strategy for smaller libraries is to forget what I actually intended to read and just wander round to let myself be tempted by things. It's not so good for planning, but you get books either way, and it does actually demonstrate that people use libraries.