What's a library for?

Post date: Feb 20, 2017 2:12:31 PM

Today's paper carries a quote that sums it up nicely:

"For me the public library is the ideal model of society, the best possible shared space, a community of consent -- an anarcho-syndicalist collective where each person is pursuing their own aim (education, entertainment, affect, rest) with respect to others..."

Read more at https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/opinion/sunday/an-elegy-for-the-library.html