Shhh...quiet please. What happened to this concept at the library? My local RWA® chapter meets at a near-by library. The last meeting I attended, I arrived late for the PRO meeting, so I sat down outside the room where we meet and waited until the general members arrived. I pulled out my pen and notebook and began to scribble. A music recital was being held at the library that morning. Although the music was beautiful, the distraction of the music would not allow my thoughts to come through clearly. Our group meets in an enclosed room and there are no musical instruments involved. The librarians did have the musicians tucked away somewhere in the back of the library, but not in an enclosed room. The music was loud and distracting enough that I could not think straight. How can anyone concentrate to read, write or study with all that noise? Isn't that what the library is all about. A place of quiet solitude to find escape into our fantasies for a while? A tranquil place to go undisturbed to study, or work on that next best-seller?

This is one of the blogs I read. Awful Library Books I found it a while ago and visit every now and again. This site is a collection of amusing, perhaps questionable, public library holdings.

Some of these books are so old and out of date I’m surprised they would still be found in a public library…honestly how sad is it that we would still find some of these books in a public library. Why? What possible reason would they have to still be in circulation? Is anyone going to check out Reverse the Charges, How to save money on your phone bill? Come on people...really?

I did OK on my writing goals yesterday. I got started on critiquing Cami's new story--Yay! Sorry it has taken me so long Cami...and I even got some new writing done. No revising.