A Library Is Not... - Tim Lepczyk

A Library Is Not…

It’s great to see the responses coming in from yesterday’s post “A Library Is…” However, it all seems so grand and amorphous.

A library is a magical wondrous adventure for your imagination and life travels.
It’s a church of the mind.
A library is a technology for sharing ideas.
And, it’s almost as good as a TARDIS.

If a library is all of these things, then what isn’t a library. How do we define the negative.

With that in mind, please complete the following sentence: A library is not…

Writer, Technologist, and Librarian.

I’m a technologist, librarian, writer, and father.

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