So I’ve lately been itching to read “The Da Vinci Code” but not so itching to fork over any of my hard-earned Di Nero for Da Pleasure. I also wasn’t really eager to do the crapshoot that comes with traipsing around to the various city library branches (such as the Cahuenga Branch, pictured, on Santa Monica a couple blocks east of the Vermonica installation Cybele profiles below) hoping a copy would be available. So first I paid a visit to the Los Angeles Public Library website a couple weeks ago to peruse its online catalog and minimize my traipsing options by finding out who had what and where. Turns out at that time the closest branch with a copy was in that distant and foreign place known as Canoga Park. But I didn’t care how good a story it might tell, CP was a mountain range too far to go.
But ho! Little did I know (and pardon me for surely being way behind the times on this; hopefully I’m not the last person in town to discover it) that our city’s glorious public library system allows you to reserve a book online so that once it becomes available at the branch of your choosing they dial your digits and tell you to come on down!
Somewhat skeptical, I personally inaugurated this feature and sure enough the call came yesterday alerting me that the Cahuenga Branch had my copy ready and waiting, which I picked up after work without a hitch. Looks like the beginning of a beautiful symbiosis.
Though it would have made even less of a story for the blog, you could have borrowed a copy from me.
“…it would have made EVEN LESS of a story for the blog…”
Gee, thanks Cybele. Ol’ buddy ol’ pal. Keep your damn book and commentstomp all you want over what I guess is my raving penchant for irrelevance. Can’t wait to catch your next HOT topic.
Dood! I meant to pick up your thread that it would have been a bigger story if you had to schlep out to Canoga Park and it actually became a nice tale of things working out … Sheesh!
Anyway, I’m glad you got to post about the Cahuenga Branch. I think it’s just cute as a button.
Hey, nice blog. I’m a new kid in town because i’ve just moved down from the Bay Area.You’ve discovered my favorite system of getting books. Also check out the Glendale Library. They let you immediately check out new books for a buck a week!
http://www.ci.glendale.ca.us/government/library/index.asp
nice site i really like it