The library is for everyone

The following is a excerpt I read earlier this year and wanted to share but never got around to doing so until now! It's so cool to read this positive description of the library. :)

Smelly and dirty, I walked a mile tot he other side of the downtown peninsula, through Marion Square, to the library. This would become tradition. For the next two months while I was living at the shelter, rarely would a day go by that I didn't pay a visit to the library. It would become my connection to the rest of the world. I recognized early on that everyone belongs there. For a moment, lower, middle, and upper classes all blend into the same intellectual melting pot. Whether sufing the Internet or perusing the bookshelves, everyone can find something to do at the library. 

(from p. 62 of Scratch Beginnings by Adam Shepard, Collins Publisher, 2008)