A recent letter to the Mountain Democrat complained that our Cameron Park Library was too noisy. Those “tight-lipped” librarians in Cameron Park that she refers to are actually biting their tongues so they don’t laugh out loud. The letter writer seems to assume that children don’t belong in the library during storytime, or perhaps ever, unless they can learn to behave like the well-brought up generations of yore. But should a busy suburban community library resemble the hallowed closed stacks of the Bodleian Library? Or should it be filled with crowds of young children and their parents enthusiastically sharing stories, songs and rhymes. Using your “library voice” is appropriate most of the time, but once in a while a library voice is exuberantly discovering the joy of reading and books. And that makes us smile.
Jeanne
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