And we're back on the second floor of MPPL looking at...well, MPPL has never met a hard-to-read sign it won't buy, but this one reads "Fiction/AV/Teen", which seems like a really broad grouping for one desk to me, but then I don't know their patrons as well as they do.
Another fishbowl teen room -- at least the frosted glass ones have more privacy than the letters on these doors provide.
I like the vaguely checkerboard carpeting.
Now
here's something that really excited me! Too few libraries have dedicated shelving for local authors. I know my books were interfiled at Poplar Creek Public Library and Schaumburg Township District Library in the YA and regular collections respectively (STDL eventually weeded mine out, since there was no local authors collection to preserve them in; I haven't had the stomach to see if PCPL still has my works...).
The lighting turned out weird in some of my pictures. I didn't even include the one before this because it turned out so dark. This room wasn't this dark. I just wanted you to see, though, the signage way up by the ceiling, the tiny signage on the square pillar, and those comfy-looking chairs (though, again, for some reason they came out so dark you can hardly make out how comfy they look).
I like this! For your convenience,
Wars and
Trek books side-by-side.
In the research room in the middle of the second floor, there is this microfilm reader, and the strangely out-of-place-seeming display case next to it.
MPPL has a fantastic local history collection -- and I say that not even having seen all of it! I haven't been in these locked drawers yet, but I'm awful curious. I think I'll ask for a peek on my next visit.
No, you're not looking at the cover to Coldplay's
Parachutes album. It's just a really nice globe in the research room. Maybe an antique!
I'm less inclined to guess this chess table is an antique, though it does look really nice. Slide those comfier-looking chairs from the other room in here and I'll gladly try a game against the first comer.
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