While libraries all around Muncie are cutting their hours or closing, a new one will open in the Village today.
Charlie's Library is a different kind of library, however. While it will probably compete for traffic with Bracken Library, patrons won't find shelves of books and encyclopedias, but rather a collection of booze, dim lighting and procrastinating, binge-drinking college students. It's the kind to which the future leaders of the world go to kill brain cells rather than to sharpen their wits. A drink or six might help take your mind off the $500 hole in your bank account dug by your textbooks.
While many details are still hazy, Charlie's Library sounds like a fun and somewhat new idea. If nothing else the building will have a new facade. Study nights, counterproductive as they may be for a bar to offer, sound good for those who may not need isolation or silence or time for study groups. The bar's Facebook page advertises karaoke on Wednesdays, which is something the Ball State bar scene lacks. Possible trivia nights could offer a new weeknight activity for students. The books you bring with you to study may help you win.
Its predecessor, Doc's on Dill, was fun. It had space, booze and live music. While it was there, no one else in the Village had shows as often. But Charlie's Library sounds like it could be something we haven't seen before, which says a lot considering how often establishments shuffle in and out of that four-block area. It also could become the same live music bar as Doc's or Moe's before it.
Either way, the Village needs a music venue. If it has a fun theme and sticks around for more than a few months that would be a plus.
It needs your support - the same support you gave Doc's on Dill too much of, forcing it to consolidate with Doc's Music Hall in downtown Muncie to avoid the two competing for the same customers.
The music scene hasn't left the Village yet. But as often as the signatures on the deeds change, it may not be long before the Village, once again, doesn't have a regular music venue. If you want the music to keep playing, at least check the new place out. And think of all the drinking games you could play while studying. Take a shot at the end of each chapter or take a drink every time you read the word "cardinal." Zoology majors or religious studies majors reading about Catholicism would get pretty sloshed.
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