I wrote this post back in May 2013, in response to a Huffington Post article written by a businessman who couldn’t understand why libraries were even around anymore–you know, what with the Internet, search engines, and ebooks. Library professionals and library lovers everywhere responded with passion and a fair amount of outrage at the privileged stance taken by this businessman, who seemed to think libraries mostly exist to provide internet access for “the poor.” I was inspired by the librarians who took this outrage and passion, and channeled it into positive advocacy in the form of Tumblr and Twitter challenges to post the difference libraries have made in your life, and in the form of evidence-based responses and invitations to visit their libraries, which they know are hubs of the community. I link to the original article and detail the “teachable moment” in another post (which I will very sneakily not link to here, because I would love for you to explore my blog to find it!). In this post, I did something I would love to have students do in my school library–create a collection on a physical bulletin board or online blog of observations from students about what their library is to them.