Now if someone else suggests the idea on the show about opening the library back up, and she hears about it or sees a poster about it, or someone suggest to her that she could help with restoring it, I don’t mind that idea, but I guess I feel that after 28 years of being locked up and not knowing about our world at all, I’m not sure if I would find it believable that she would come up with restoring and opening up the library on her own.
Perhaps Belle goes to the library precisely because she has been locked away in a new land for nearly three decades; she has a lot of reading to catch up on and a lot to learn. She’d gain invaluable information from reading an encyclopedia and newspaper archives. I love the reference to the library from the Disney version of Beauty and the Beast. Also, I think the name “Adam” would be very fitting for Mr. Gold, since as said, it’s the Beast’s name in the cartoon version, and is the namesake of Adam Horowitz, the co-executive producer of OUaT.
"That’s how you know you’ve really got a home. When you leave it, there’s this feeling that you can’t shake. You just miss it." Neal Cassidy