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I don’t know if the demographic of library users is actually bimodal – two peaks – one for the young and one for the old. But when I drove by my library on a recent Saturday, the parking lot was completely full and that surprised me. I’m glad to see it though. Even if I’m not a current user (I do have a card) I think libraries are important. My 7th-8th grade school had a library in a cool old room that I can still picture. But it also had a bookmobile that would come by. The novelty of getting a book from a vehicle was pretty entertaining as a kid. When I got a little older and would go to the town library by myself, it was fun to just roam the stacks and read things at random that caught my eye. Knowledge was free in the library and there was just possibly the chance I'd learn something your parents didn’t know!
I used to think that the Library of Congress had one copy of every single book ever published in America. Well, imagine my disappointment to learn that it only has 38 million books. And you can’t take a single one of them out, even with a library card. The Library of Congress is a research library, and books are only for use on the premises. And for your odd fact of the day…the Library of Congress accounts for 3,200 Federal jobs!