Contents

Monday, April 19, 2010

Public Library Lifeline is Fraying

"Our Public Library Lifeline is Fraying. We'll Be Sorry When it Snaps." Huffington Post / Art Brodsky.
New York: Huffington Post Online, April 11th 2010.

"Let's give the last word to someone who has a secret ambition to be a librarian, but whose career went in a different direction. No less an authority than Keith Richards put it best in his forthcoming autobiography: "When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equaliser."