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A great library of witnesses
Watching from Bethlehem, feeling helpless as the death toll rose in Gaza, I applied to go far away and do research.
The New York Public Library’s act of grace
The end of fines and late fees
by Peter W. Marty
The kingdom of heaven is like the Brooklyn Public Library
What it has it must freely give away.
by Margaret Kearney
Can libraries save us?
What holds the world together, Eric Klinenberg believes, is social infrastructure.
by Samuel Wells
It’s time for me to let go of some books
Someone else should have a turn feeling guilty about not reading Finnegans Wake.
by Martin B. Copenhaver