Your first library card. Finding your favorite book in the young adult section. The free museum passes.
Whatever the reason, SA¹ú¼Ê´«Ä± would like to hear why you go to the library and about one of the best moments you've ever had at a public library.
For Miami-Dade County library assistant Juan Espinosa, it was during the 90s. He was going through a rough time.
"It became difficult to be in my apartment all the time. I couldn't find work. And I would go hang out at the Fairlawn branch. And the people there were so receptive and so accommodating not because they knew me from before — I was a new face — but they sort of took me in and I think they could tell that I was just floating around there. And for about a year and a half, that really helped me. It sort of helped me center myself and eventually I came out of that dark spot."
For Maddie Penn, it was the internet. She wrote us on Facebook:
"I was in elementary school and the internet was still a foreign concept, and not as ubiquitous as now. But at the Coral Gables library anyone could use a computer and explore this new phenomenon."
What's your favorite library memory? Text 'library' to 786-786-7826 to tell us your story or fill out the form below.
