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| Before the library, we had to refresh ourselves with a doughnut and coffee in the Salo market square. Donuts and coffee are universally delicious. |
After spending the morning at the high school, I went to the Salo public library to see what they had there. I walked around and first, found some interesting books.
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| Salo Public Library |
The library was fairly large, slightly larger than the Sammamish Public Library - the library closest to my house and school. It is well used by the community. They have a fairly large circulation rate (didn't get the numbers exactly, but I was impressed by them) and it seems to be valued by the community. They have school children visit them frequently. Elementary school students sometimes visit the library - but they also have a bookmobile that travels to elementary schools and stays there for a day at a time. They said that this was for safety - so the kids don't have to walk through the street. They also have a fairly extensive collection of local materials. Including some art work.
One thing that surprised me was that they used a different cataloging system that we use. Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of it! They said that universities use Dewey Decimal, but in the public library they use this classification system that is similar to Dewey, but only goes from 0-99 instead of 0-900s. The 10s didn't seem to correlate exactly with Dewey either.
Back to the art work in the library. There was a ceramic advent calendar that the librarian showed me and said that it was very popular with people. When I mentioned this to Maija, my mom's sister-in-law who was showing us around, she decided to call the artist and we went to his house!
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| The advent calendar in the library |
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| The artists' chapel |
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| Artwork by the artists in their home above and below |
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