A library is a library is a library, right? Like mostly a space for books? Well, this is kind of right . . .
And kind of wrong.
This year it has been so fun to see how Tonja Johnson has reimagined the north campus library space to incorporate all sorts of activities, largely with the help of a question of the week (the votes are counted and the winning option is featured on the TV screen the following week) and an “activity” of the week on a white marker board, which features everything from sudoku, a question like “what is your favorite Christmas movie,” or a fill-in-the blank question. I think my favorite one this year was “The answer is [picture of pie]. What is the question?”
Remember that old-fashioned concept of a frowning librarian yelling “shhhh” to everyone in the space?
There’s not even a whiff of that in this space. For this, we are grateful.