Discover Your Local Library, and You May Discover Yourself

Your local library is a wonderland. It's a daily staycation. It's your door to opportunity for anything you want to do or be.

For any question you have, any question at all, I guarantee you will find at least a partial answer in your local library. You can learn things you never dreamed of, explore new things, meet people, get exercise, sing, dance, watch movies, take online classes. Learn a foreign language. Learn how to cook.

But while the books, CDs, magazines, audio files and videos are jewels, your local library is so much more than that today.

For example, the Norwalk library has yoga classes; classes for English as a second language; a poetry club and a subscription to Lynda.com, a training site that has hundreds of videos that teach you any software program, from Photoshop to Java. All you need is your library card number to log into the Lynda.com website. And of course, they all have free-use computers with Internet access. 

The Greenwich library does Free Friday Films once a month. The Darien library has a writing group where people get together to discuss the books they're working on and solicit feedback. I took a free class there a few years ago on "How to Write a Memoir."

If you have small children, I highly recommend "storybook time". It's a great way to get your child not only to love reading but also to use their imagination and to visualize. 

Think of your library as a shopping mall. Every aisle is something different. Every day, something new to see, do and learn. Library cards are free and children 5 years old and up can get one. If you haven't visited your local library yet, I encourage you to do so. If you have kids, bring them. They'll thank you, and you'll thank yourself.

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