By alang.consultant Iowa City (Iowa) — When I was a kid growing up in Madison, Wisconsin, my dad traveled for work and my mom worked as a librarian at the Pinney Branch Library on Cottage Grove Road. In the late 1970s/early 80s, after school programs were rare, so many afternoons on days dad was gone and mom worked, I roamed the stacks of the library. I was a voracious reader and mom was a free thinking liberal so my self-education courtesy of Pinney Branch was far-reaching and mostly unsupervised. By the time I was in middle school, I’d already consumed virtually the entire collection of “You…