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Comment on Pleasing Pioneer Memorial Library by Jan Turner

Jan Turner — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 13:30:19 +0000

Glad to know about this dynamic library and the supportive community. The scenery is beautiful there. I had no idea!

Comment on Winning Westport by mgbb123

mgbb123 — Sun, 26 May 2013 01:36:55 +0000

Hello: I am in charge of an appreciation dinner for the Library Staff. I am a member of Friends of the Library. I have looked and looked for a theme besides Thank You for these wonderful people. Have you had an appreciation dinner lately and if you have, what did you do to make it special? Thank you. Mary

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Comment on Cosmopolitan Cairns by Justine

Justine — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 15:09:25 +0000

Thanks Jan, you’d love the view from all the windows, those fig trees are just amazing – much like banyans, but vinier.

Comment on Cosmopolitan Cairns by jlturner720

jlturner720 — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 14:38:01 +0000

Justine, Your world library tour is fascinating. They all have some similarities but there are differences, too. Cairns has a beautiful library system. I love your description of your wait outside the library. I’d love to see the flying foxes and smell the lilies! Jan

Comment on Winning Westport by Justine

Justine — Mon, 18 Mar 2013 18:06:40 +0000

Hi Cindy, thanks for commenting. I too was surprised about Carnegie libraries outside of the US, but per Wikipedia “1,689 were built in the United States, 660 in Britain and Ireland, 125 in Canada, and others in Australia, New Zealand, Serbia, the Caribbean, Mauritius and Fiji.”! Now I just have to find the ones in the Caribbean

Wifi in NZ was often spotty and yes, very expensive – at least for us as we stayed in cheap motels – in Te Anau (near Milford Sound) the library was the best place in town to get on line – free wifi if you had your own computer, but even tourists could use the library computers for 1/2 hour (free guest internet access appears to be much rarer overseas). In Christchurch and Dunedin the hotel access was very reasonable, but in Australia, it was often outrageous – some places were $35/day! And many places that said they had unlimited access cut you off after a tiny amount of data use (I don’t stream movies or do anything requiring lots of band width, this would just be for email). We are very lucky here, perhaps because of that Universal Service Fund.

Re book similarity, I think there’s a lot that’s the same, but I’ve also found that certain authors who are overlooked here are very popular overseas. Ditto with movies, music and obviously television series.

And re the offer to do a guest post, well you know I’m lazy and it’s nice to have others do the work for me, plus they’d notice things I wouldn’t to say nothing of them visiting places I’ll never get too

Comment on Winning Westport by Cindy Salo

Cindy Salo — Sun, 17 Mar 2013 22:08:13 +0000

Justine,
Well, of course you visited libraries on your trip! This is fascinating There are/were Carnegie libraries in New Zealand? Wifi is expensive when traveling in NZ? And there’s a decennial gathering of Westports–how lovely. I wonder how similar the collection at the Westport Library is to a U.S. library of similar size and location. How many of the same books would the two libraries have?
btw, Pat, I got the same response from Justine when I told about my favorite libraries in the West!
Cindy

Comment on Winning Westport by jshaffner

jshaffner — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 15:53:01 +0000

Thanks so much Pat! So glad you’re reading and if I ever get to KC again I’ll definitely do a post on the Westport branch – unless you feel inspired to visit it yourself and do a guest blog post on it – hint, hint

Comment on Winning Westport by Patricia Hassan

Patricia Hassan — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 16:33:14 +0000

Hi, Justine – I always love your blog entries! If you’re ever in Kansas City, Missouri, there’s a Westport Branch Library of the KCPL. The Town of Westport was an outfitting hub for the Santa Fe Trail (Westport Route), but Westport is now just an area of KC, albeit a very busy and popular one. Some years back, KCPL wanted to close the branch and merge it with another branch, but the loyal community rose up in protest – and so Westport Branch continues

Looking forward to your next post-

Best,
Patricia (Pat) Hassan
Retired Librarian, Johnson County Library (KS)

Comment on Ireland’s Winsome Westport Library by Winning Westport | The Librarian is In

Winning Westport | The Librarian is In — Mon, 11 Mar 2013 14:52:03 +0000

[...] was looking forward to visiting the library here as I’d already done a post on another Westport in Ireland, and coincidentally, according to Wikipedia, this Westport may have been named for the [...]

Comment on Awesome Arapahoe by Justine

Justine — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 20:02:46 +0000

I completely agree, they really make it a fun place for kids to visit and it has some of the most unique children’s shelving I’ve ever seen.