{"id":550,"date":"2008-09-28T18:48:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/?p=550"},"modified":"2008-09-28T18:48:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-29T01:48:08","slug":"multnomah-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/28\/multnomah-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Multnomah County Central Library (Portland, OR)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve lived in cities with large central libraries before (like Boston) but the locations I’ve lived recently tend to have smaller ones (with access to more books via inter-library loan).\u00a0 Portland has one of those old-fashioned but refreshing monuments to reading.\u00a0 A library where you actually want to spend time, not just kill it.<\/p>\n

Multnomah County Central Library<\/strong><\/a>
\n801 S.W. 10th Avenue
\nPortland, OR 97205
\n(503) 988-5123<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Three floors of book collections.\u00a0 Grand old staircases (and an elevator).\u00a0 And a children’s room to die for.\u00a0 This place is bigger than some local branch libraries I’ve been in.<\/p>\n

\"Children's

Children's room at the Portland OR Central Library<\/p><\/div>\n

The bronze tree<\/a> marks the front desk and it’s a beautiful sculpture (more pictures<\/a>).\u00a0 The wood wall to the left leads to a playarea\/mini theater.\u00a0 The tables have puzzles on them.\u00a0 And the rear room stretches back further than the picture.<\/p>\n

As you can probably guess, I spent most of my time in the children’s section, but the rest of the library was just as spacious.\u00a0 The bathrooms had some light scent but were quite usable.<\/p>\n

Right in front of the library, on SW 10th Ave, there is the Portland Streetcar<\/a> that runs often and is free in the immediate downtown area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve lived in cities with large central libraries before (like Boston) but the locations I’ve lived recently tend to have smaller ones (with access to more books via inter-library loan).\u00a0 Portland has one of those old-fashioned but refreshing monuments to reading.\u00a0 A library where you actually want to spend time, not just kill it. Multnomah […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[115,99],"tags":[98,51,112],"class_list":["post-550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-places-to-go","tag-oregon","tag-photos-family","tag-photos-places"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":553,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550\/revisions\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/norwitz.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}