why books in a library are important and why should we use them?
The Professor doesn’t quite know how to respond to this question, since (a) it isn’t about comics, and (b) it sounds like a school assignment for, say, a paragraph in an eight grade English class at the beginning of the semester. Oh, there’s something there about how libraries are for, you know, books and stuff, and how many of the free public libraries in the US were built in the late 1800s and early 1900s by robber barons like Andrew Carnegie trying to improve their pr, and how as a lad the Professor read through most of the McKinley Memorial Library in Niles, Ohio, starting with fare like the Dr. Doolittle books and Mary Poppins through the various fairy tale collections (the Red Book, the Blue Book, etc.), and eventually covering most of the sciences, the essays, the histories and the fictions, and how today most librarians have discovered and are enthusiastically pushing graphic novels as a way to attract both younger and other readers (meaning there is a comics connection, after all) — but, being an actual professor, the Professor isn’t about to do someone’s assignment for them, so we’ll have to end this just about… here.
