Public Libraries: enablers of Americans' dreams...
...a friend forwarded me the link to this interesting article on Common Ground (originally published in the Seattle Times)...
I found it useful to compare how libraries are adapting to changing circumstances, about how communities push back when attempts to close libraries are made, how they adjust to lowered funding, etc.
I fond especially interesting the quoted fact that Andrew Carnegie originally planned a place that would attract young people in, and only then encourage them to read...with him it was swimming pools or boxing gyms, with us it is free computer access...
Very intriguing, to compare the similiarities, and contrast the differences, between the library's function in the US and in the UK (for instance).
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