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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
“It's absolutely fantastic that as a citizen, you come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly.”
Librarian’s remark after Göteborg Main Library was accidentally left unlocked at Halloween and 400 people wandered in. ‘People sat reading newspapers. There were families in the children's section and people looking books up in the database. 200 books were borrowed and nothing was damaged.’
Thanks to @mrsostberg for sharing this. Am sharing in English as it’s so nice.
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- Screenshot of Sveriges Radio Ekot news story, my rough translation into English: ‘Gothenburg City Library was closed for the Hallowe’en weekend. Or, it should have been, but one door was accidentally left unlocked. On Saturday, over 400 eager readers wandered in to the unstaffed library. Library manager Anna Carin Elf heard what was going on, went to the library and found the visitors who were surprised themselves to learn the library wasn’t actually open. “They thought it seemed a bit empty. But there were quite a lot of people sitting and reading newspapers. There were families in the children's section and people using the search database to look for books,” she told Radio p4 Göteborg. ‘Over 200 books were borrowed and nothing was damaged,’ says Anna Carin Elf. ‘It's absolutely fantastic, I think, that as a citizen of Gothenburg, you come into an empty library and treat it so lovingly.” (remote)
