I love going to the library, and I actually own a book store.  Libraries are a refuge from the blaring catastrophic headlines that we awaken to every morning. 
I once saw a family of new Canadians, my guess Somalian,  applying for library cards, and the mother looked around in amazement and asked '"All these books can be taken home to read?" and the librarian said," Yes, and there are four more floors of books too", and tears came to the woman's eyes, and I actually teared up too and I'm not that sentimental. 
A pilgrimage to libraries may have more significance  than it seems at first glance , although in Winnipeg  I could do much of it on foot. 
Peace.