David Harvey: I Cannot Live Without Books - The Library

All of my life I have been involved in libraries. We had a library at home when I was young and on the bicycle ride to and from school I went past the Remuera Library on Remuera Road and often stopped - through the doors and hard right to the children’s section – for a browse and often a borrow.

There was a library at school and when I went on to the College – surprise surprise – I volunteered as a librarian.

When I was in the US on my AFS year I haunted the local library at Redwood Falls – one of the Carnegie Libraries. It was in this establishment that I began to develop and learn research skills.