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The Library Rules

Written on: November 15th, 2009 by: in Blog Posts

I came across this library rule this weekend, and it’s too good not to share. This is an item from the library rules and regulations at the American University of Afghanistan, in Kabul.

AUAF is a new, private not-for-profit university whose mission is to provide a liberal arts based education and be open to all qualified students in Afghanistan regardless of gender, sect or demographic allegiance, and attempt to help create a “bright national future”.

Keeping in mind that the Library is a place of study and research, users should maintain dignity and peacefulness within the premises. The act of learning is a virtue that must be honored with silence

I think that the last line is particularly beautiful, and the rule itself along with the emerging story of this school and others like it in all the troubled places in our world reminds that learning, practiced and protected by the library, home, church, or school, nourishes the emerging future.