It’s not terribly novel to argue that libraries, far from being fading relics of the print age, are more important than ever as free, welcoming community and information centers. There’s a tweet that has circulated for a few years (apologies for not attributing it) that essentially states that, were libraries invented today, they would be labeled a communist plot. And it’s true, as Susan Orleans writes in The Library Book: “The publicness of the public library is an increasingly rare commodity. It becomes harder all the […]