{"id":13194,"date":"2013-11-26T16:59:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/26\/a-library-is-not-just-a-reference-service-it-is\/"},"modified":"2013-11-26T16:59:12","modified_gmt":"2013-11-26T16:59:12","slug":"a-library-is-not-just-a-reference-service-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/26\/a-library-is-not-just-a-reference-service-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u2026a library is not just a reference service: it is also a place for the vulnerable. From the elderly gentleman whose only remaining human interaction is with library staff, to the isolated young mother who relishes the support and friendship that grows from a Baby Rhyme Time session, to a slow moving 30-something woman collecting her CDs, libraries are a haven in a world where community services are being ground down to nothing. I\u2019ve always known libraries are vital, but now I understand that their worth cannot be measured in books alone.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2013\/jul\/20\/libraries-books-place-for-vulnerable?CMP=twt_gu\">A library is not just about books: it\u2019s also a place for the vulnerable<\/a> by Angela Clarke (via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/librariesbuildcommunity.tumblr.com\/\">librariesbuildcommunity<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>yes, <em><strong>yes<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/thedanaash.tumblr.com\/\">thedanaash<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2026a library is not just a reference service: it is also a place for the vulnerable. From the elderly gentleman whose only remaining human interaction is with library staff, to the isolated young mother who relishes the support and friendship that grows from a Baby Rhyme Time session, to a slow moving 30-something woman collecting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/2013\/11\/26\/a-library-is-not-just-a-reference-service-it-is\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5949,5948],"class_list":["post-13194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bless-you-libraries","tag-importance-of-libraries","post_format-post-format-quote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.augustwritesabook.com\/tumblr-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}