If it is right that schools should be maintained by the whole community for the well-being of the whole, it is right also that libraries should be so maintained.
The book must of necessity be put into a bookcase. And the bookcase must be housed. And the house must be kept. And the library must be dusted, must be arranged, must be catalogued. What a vista of toil, yet not unhappy toil!
Random House is definitely invested in keeping libraries healthy.
I worked in restaurants, and I worked in the Cambridge Public Library.
Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
I started Save the Libraries in 2010 by hosting a big fundraiser in my city library of DeKalb County in Atlanta. Through that, I learned that even with fundraisers, libraries often don't make money - they just barely break even.
The way we've been neglecting to support our libraries throughout the country is a shame.
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
To take pride in a library kills it. Then, its motive power shifts over to the critical if admiring visitor, and apologies are necessary and acceptable and the fat is in the fire.
President Johnson wanted no admission fee charged at the library. I have been sorely tempted to change that policy often, but I fear the reaction from the grave would be overwhelming.
