"Everything in the library is yours!"

I love to tell kids that everything in the library is theirs. "We just keep it here for you." One million items that you can have for free! A collection that represents the answer to just about any question we could ask. A bottomless source of stories and entertainments and scholarly works and works of art. Escapist, fun trash and the pinnacles of the high literary style. Beavis and Butt-Head DVDs and Tchaikovsky's entire oeuvre within ten feet of each other. . . .

Josh Hanagarne, The World's Strongest Librarian: A Memoir of Tourette's, Faith, Strength, and the Power of Family (New York: Gotham Books, 2013), p. 205