It is with a heavy heart that I say goodbye to a local library that served our community with honor and steadfast dedication these past 58 years — this Sunday there will be a closing ceremony.  Silver Spring’s public library is the only branch in our county system that has been designed in a distinctive Frank Lloyd Wright-esque “prairie style” architecture.

Hopefully this blog piece will pressure the county to repurpose the building as an intergenerational recreation center instead of allowing the building to be razed in order to put up (yet another) high-priced condo in the downtown area.  May the building continue to serve the fine people of Montgomery County for generations to come as it was intended to!

“Library”     Cursor Miner     2003

Biblio Pop:  You’re Overdue to Check Out These Library Songs

“Marian the Librarian”     Arthur Godfrey     1958

“Library Love Affair”     Brian Hyland     1960

“A Trip to the Library”     Barbara Baxley     1963

“Harlem Library”     Kenny Lynch     1964

“Library Book”     The Faders     1979

“Lines from the Library”     Shriekback     1983

“Library Song”     Bill Roper     1987

“Under the Library”     Circus X3     1988

“(Going to the) Library”     The Girls     1990

“At the Library”     Green Day     1991

“Lisa Librarian”     Velocity Girl     1993

“Fabulous Library”     Eyeless in Gaza     1993

“Love in the Library”     Jimmy Buffett     1994

“Library Girl”    His Name Is Alive with Dara     1994

“Library Rap”     MC Poindexter & the Study Crew     1995

“Faster Pussycat to the Library!”     Sam Phillips     1996

“Library Song”     Tom Chapin     1996

“Sweet Librarian”     Railroad Jerk     1996

“Lost in the Library”     Saint Etienne     1997

“Library Card”     Arthur & Friends     1998

“The Librarian”     Hefner     1998

“Library on Fire”     Lux Occulta     1999

“Library Card”     Frank Zappa     [1999]

“Queens of the Circulating Library”     Coil     2000

“Library Girl”     Boyzvoice     2000

“I Am the Sub-Librarian”     Piano Magic     2001

“Library Grrrl”     The Grrrlscouts     2002

“Library”     Cursor Miner     2003

“Reference Librarian”     Robert Lopresti     2003

“Librarian”     Jonathan Rundman     2004

“Librarian”     Haunted Love     2006

“The Librarian”     Nine Horses     2006

“Shouting in the Library”     Popple     2007

“Librarian”     My Morning Jacket     2008

“The Librarian Song”     Joe Uveges     2008

“Joyce the Librarian”     Liz Ryan     2009

“Ten Year Librarian”     Junius     2009

“The Librarian”     Laura Jane Scott     2010

“I Want to Be a Librarian”     Rebecca Angel     2010

“Libraries Are the Cemeteries of Ideas”     Tinsel Teeth     2010

“Library Rock”     Maynoe & Howie     2010

“Library Pictures”     Arctic Monkeys     2011

“Dewey Decimal Rap”     Melvil Dewey     2011

“I Love My Library”     Lunch Money     2012

“Library Girl”     Reina del Cid     2012

“The Library Song”     David Llywelyn Brown     2012

“Sexy Librarian”     Luther Red     2012

“The Librarians Are Hiding Something”     Swingin’ Utters     2012