Trip to Memorial Library

Finding a book at the library was a little intimidating. It was only my second time a Memorial Library and I didn't really know what it was like. I looked up a book I was thinking about reading called, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. I wrote down the information and took it to the circulation desk to find out where I could find it. She explained to me that the "regular stacks" meant the whole library so she asked for the call number I told her the number: PT9876.22 A692. She explained that the PT books were located in the South stacks of floor 4M. I walked away thinking, "Um, ok. What the heck is floor 4M??" It turns out floor 4M is the floor between 4 and 5. I don't know why that is, but I guess you learn something new every day. From there I took my little sheet of paper and went to the South Stacks like she had told me. I felt strange. I can't remember the last time I looked for a book in a library, but I was pretty sure I remembered how it worked...and then I came to the stacks. I looked at these stacks and I thought they were from the future! I've never seen moving stacks before. I tried to move them by hand but when I realized that wasn't working I finally noticed the move button on the stacks. Yeah I know, I'm a genius. When I finally moved stacks I got to the book I was looking for. It wasn't hard to find because all the books around it looked old. I felt relieved when I found it because to tell you the truth, the library scares me.

Larsson, Stieg. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. New York: Knopf Doubleday Publishing, 2008. Print.