Lawrence County
I Love Our Library
No place is better than a good library, and the Mitchell Carnegie Public Library can’t be beat. Its resources are outstanding, the staff is tops. I’ve never asked for anything that hasn't been provided. The environment is conducive to study and pleasure, and provides for individual and group work in terms of research and appropriate activities. The facility is controlled as well as welcoming to all. The library sponsors activities for adults and children, and the children’s department is spacious, well-stocked and accommodating. I can’t imagine having to do without our library, or having services cut. I go there several times a week, and I honestly can say, I love our library.
Pat, Retired
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The Library Gives Me What I Need to Write
I retired to write fiction but found that solitary pursuit overwhelming. Then a good friend, who is a successful author, challenged me to meet her at the Mitchell Community Public Library to write a couple of times a week. This is a great place to write. This library has good computers and Internet access. I write my stories and email them to myself at home. I wrote a sketch about my grandmother here and it has been accepted for an anthology.
Being here gives me what I need to write. I can find any reference materials I need. The librarians unjam the computer if I get in a mess. I can check out best sellers like “Lovely Bones” or “Atonement” or any of the hundreds of classics that line the shelves. So far I have hauled home everything
from Sylvia Browne’s “Book of Dreams” to “99 Historic Homes of Indiana,” to Fannie Flagg’s “Standing In The Rainbow.” I borrow CDs, books on tape even movies to view
on the Magnavox VCR I bought when the Friends of the Library held a white elephant sale. More recently my friend taught a writing workshop in the library basement and you can guess who was the biggest duck in that puddle.
Mary, Retired
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