The local library makes me feel very upset

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I used to spend almost all my time at the school library which was very old fashioned. I cried when they tore down the beautiful building to build a modern junk heap in its place. and when the familier people i knew retired.

pretty much every thing that ias a part of my childhood memories that was any comfort has passed away. and I'm increasingly finding myself in a world I don't understand and really don't want ot be a part of. I try to surround myself with antiques because I find having and wearing things that have a history are comforting to me.

I'm only 28 though I shouldn't feel this way but I do. I don't feel like I belong to this time like I should have been born
at least 100 years or more ago.

I guess thats why I liked Doctor Who I always felt a bit out of place like him it was my childhood fantasy to ride around time and space in the TARDIS and escape this horrible ugly world.

I'm totally into victorian style that and artdecco.

I live near lots of libraries and one of my favourites is Central Library in Kensington, London. It has window seats downstairs and upstairs in the reference part there are study desks with quite high fronts and a shelf so that you can work without distraction; these desks are in between the book shelves and you only get about six or eight places in each section but usually people leave a space between themselves and you so its not too distracting or intrusive.

There is also a refurbished library in Swiss Cottage but the sections there have flat tables and I found I couldn't relax there despite them being in between book sections. Just too easily distracted by light, noise, movement etc.

My library is woefully out of date (think mid 90s), replaced several shelves of books for shelves of VHS and DVDs, is populated by loud and sometimes violent kids who go there to rent movies and browse the internet, and is patrolled by an armed police officer.

I am not joking.

My local library is a carnegie library built around the turn of the century. it doesn't have a lot ob books that I'm interested in but I can get a lot of good stuff on inter library loan.

also how is mid 90s woefully out of date? thats not that long ago.

In terms of information and technology, a decade is an eternity. They still stock books about Windows 95.

For literature it isn't a big deal, though I do wish I could find a semi-recent release from them.

I see I thought you were talking about the style of the building and not how up to date the collection was.