Libraries are great meeting places, complete with books, coffee and quiet, and one of the many wonderful things about them is that they’re free. Or at least they don’t charge. Taxpayers take care of the bill.
Need a quiet place to find a book and read? How about a computer with Internet access to apply for a new job? Do you need to reserve a space to work on a project with some colleagues? Libraries have you covered.
All the librarians ask in return is you’re clothed and are respectful of the rules, two things that got a couple visitors in trouble at the Arkansas State University library. A math tutor was recently surprised to run into a raccoon there. Here’s more from the papers:
“Codie Clark, a math tutor, says he spotted at least two raccoons Sunday on the third floor of the university’s Dean B. Ellis Library while waiting for a student to arrive for a tutoring session. Clark says other students then cornered one raccoon.”
What business do raccoons have in a library? Unless they’re there to protest the library’s ever shrinking nature guidebook section, not much. Perhaps they were there to sink their teeth into a good book. But somehow we doubt it.
For the animal lovers reading this, fear not. The school humanely trapped the animals. And an animal rescuer released the raccoons back into the wild that night. Sorry, Rocky and Lil. If you want to pick up a copy of Stephen King’s new novel, you’ll have to find it somewhere else.