The Library Cat and the Bookworm

In a world filled with many new and fast evolving technologies, many parents are worried that their children spend too much time on iPads, smartphones, and the latest computers, while it seems that they never read except when told to do so by a teacher. Some of these parents, which includes those who love reading and those who do not read much themselves, ask “How do I get my child to read?” This question is often asked of other readers, or parents of a reader, or to those of us working in a library. It is amusing and interesting to see what kind of people visit the library. It might be surprising that many do not visit the library to read at all. In this sense it is important to remember that the library is not exclusively a place of books, not anymore. For libraries to survive in the 21 st century it is as important for them to move with the technological times as it is for anyone else. Thus, it is better to think of the library as a place of information. In other words, libra...

If you've read my profile you will know that my two big loves in life is books and religion. I've been reading books ever since I can remember (and even from before I could remember). I have to thank my mom for this love I have for books and reading. She enjoy telling the story that, when I was just 3 years old, she could take a nap in the afternoons placing me next to her on the bed with a story book and find me just there an hour later looking at the pictures and making up stories for myself. Personally I can't even remember how I came to be almost obsessive about books. My two grandmothers also reads a lot. From my grandmother on my mother's side I learned an appreciation for my Afrikaans language and also for reading stories for the shake of reading. As I was growing up I used to refuse reading anything in English. I remember reading book after book by Ena Murray, Konsalik, Daleen Matthee, CF Beyers-Boshoff and many others. From my grandmother on my father's lea...