What Would You Do If There Wasn't A Library In Moultrie?

That's what popped into my head as I was working on the November calendar, the one we put in the glass case near the end of the long white hallway.
What would you do?
You wouldn't be able to use one of the 20 Dell computers. You'd have to find a friend with one you could use, or go to Walmart or Best Buy or somewhere and buy one. Or travel to the nearest library with one you could use for free. Let's see...how far away is that?
What about all those books you like to read? You could go to our local bookstore or Walmart to buy them. Or go as far as Valdosta or Albany or Thomasville or Tallahassee to make your book purchases. But you wouldn't be able to come to your local library and just check them out for free.
You also wouldn't be able to listen to all those audio books you like when you take a trip, or while you're working at home and want to listen a story, or you're sick and in bed and want to keep your mind occupied.
Speaking of being sick in bed, you wouldn't have that big stack of children's books available to read to your sick child. Have you priced how much children's books cost lately?
Where would you go to get those black and white copies made of the document someone asked you to bring to them? Where would you be able to make a color copy of that new baby to send to family members? There are places available, but not as convenient as the library.
What about all that reference material you need in order to pass the next test, or write your next book, or hunt for the location of that new place your son is going to?
Many people who don't take the newspapers come to the library to catch up on the latest local and state-wide news. And if they can't afford magazine subscriptions, they're here looking at the latest
ones.
Can you imagine what it would be like for all those people who come to the genealogy library to learn more about their family histories, find lost relatives, or look at a picture of grandma for the first time in their life? Where's the closest genealogy library?
Our frequent visitors, who like to rest on the comfortable couches and know where the bathrooms are, would need to frequent McDonald's more often. Some of them, who have no place in the world to go to except the library, would have no place to go.
What would you do if there wasn't a library in Moultrie?
I can't imagine what I'd do...even if I didn't work here.
Do you know how hard some people are working to keep the Moultrie-Colquitt County Libraries available for you? That means not only the main library and genealogy library, but the library in Doerun also.
Think about it.