Vote For Your Favorite Library Twaiku

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Thank you to everyone who played along in the atyourlibrary.org #nlwtwaiku contest for National Library Week.  We were overwhelmed by the number of haiku about libraries.  With delight, we read through them all, and with much struggle, we managed to narrow them down to our favorites. 

Take our poll to vote for your favorite and to pick the winner of a $50 Amazon gift certificate.  The poll closes Monday, April 18, at 10 a.m. CDT. 

With so many creative submissions, we had a difficult time narrowing down the entries to just six finalists, so we would like to recognize some of our other favorites. 

Honorary Mention - Bookmobiles 

@GeriKolesar

 Sad pig-tailed girl waits/for the bookmobile bus with/dreams and hope inside.  

Honorary Mentions – Librarians  

@jaguarstones

Kids' librarians/ Find the perfect adventure/ Like travel agents. 

@uteplibrary

Librarians help / Reference desk is friendly / Ask us anything 

@pseudandry

Which librarians/Have sensible shoes and buns?/I've never seen them! 

Honorary Mentions – Humor

 @p_frederickson 

Where else can you learn / about wizards and golf clubs? / libraries do that!

 @librarian_jo

LeVar Burton chimed/'in your local library!'/90s kids. We know. 

@TulsaMJ

CDs, DVDs, / Computers, Internet time... / ...they have books here too?

 @CestAnything

Fighting Voldemort / from the comfort of this chair / in my library. 

@Librariandujour

No buns. No Dr. Scholl's/We have tats. and Attitude./Wait! I check YOU out. 

@poozy

Orange Cheeto crumbs. / Chocolate-chip smeared pages. / Must be a kids' book.

 Honorary Mentions – Love!

 @haikugirlOz

soul mates forever / our eyes met standing in the/ 800s true love 

@ElisabethDahl

Hot library guy/ you've looked up my call number/ now come and find me