[Alumni-chat] Why Aren't the Students Using the Library?

[toyboy (andy at svcable.net)]

This observation ages me more than any other anecdote about the current Antioch. 

I absolutely LOVED the basement of the Library. Aside from the fact that that's where all the film books were cloistered (and where I found my dearly beloved "Photoplay Plot Encyclopedia", and was first turned on to the Eadweard Muybridge books) all the bound volumes of magazines like Harpers and Scientific American were found there. I can safely say that it was in the basement of Olive Kettering that I really learned to love libraries...if only for the peace and quiet (and mildew) it exhumed. Reading a book down there was almost other worldly. Creepy yes, but a pleasant sort of creepy. And I always knew that Joe would come around sooner or later to ask me what I was doing.

Anyway, it is heartening to hear that crie de coeur coming from a student rather than one of us out of touch Alums, eh?