"Sssshhhhhhh!" This was the sound that greeted my friends and I when weentered the local library as teenagers. Books were expensive so once ina while we would tip-toe through the hallowed aisles looking for thelatest titles.
Avoiding the inevitable disapproving glare from the po-faced harridanknown as "chief librarian" we would attempt some decorum, but always tono avail.
Nothing makes you want to something more than if you've been told notto. Before long we'd be in fits of giggles and we'd be pounced on withan irritated "OUT if you can't behave!" We'd end up in the streethooting with laughter. All good fun but hardly a welcoming seat oflearning for young people.
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