Research in the Community - Observations in a Local Library

To research in a library, I visited a library in my hometown. It is a fairly small library, because it is located in the basement of the community center. In a lot of ways, I like this library more than the larger libraries, because I have been there so many times so I know where pretty much everything is.

Because this library is so small, there is not as much variety as one would expect there is in a library. Surprisingly enough, the children's section makes up the majority of the library. It is very cozy in the children's section, designed to look like a place that a kid in elementary school would just want to come to and curl up with a book and read. There are all kinds of books there, and while there is evidence of an attempted system for ordering the books, everything is all over the place and the books are quite chaotic. Like the bookstore, it is hard to find anything specific among all the books, unless you were lucky enough to stumble upon it. This is interesting because children don't usually have as much of a direction as adults would like the world to have, but when they stumble upon something that wasn't expected it just kind of works for them.