In Defense of the Public Library

tofias:

We (and by we I mean I) don’t spend enough time appreciating that the public library has become one of the only institutions we have attempting to bridge the inequality of the digitial divide (via Matt Haughey).

I would add that choosing not to read is the same as not knowing how to. Libraries are perhaps the greatest monument to learning any society possesses. To the extent that they exist—and are used—we know something about a society’s commitment to education, innovation, and the democratic belief that knowledge is attainable by anyone who willingly seeks it.

tofias