Hsia Jian Li of Queens browsed at the Bayside library branch in 2011.
Kirsten Luce for The New York Times
Denying NY Libraries the Fuel They Need, New York Times, April 24, 2015
...the city’s libraries have more users than major professional sports, performing arts, museums, gardens and zoos — combined.
No
one who has set foot in the libraries — crowded at all hours with
adults learning languages, using computers, borrowing books, hunting for
jobs, and schoolchildren researching projects or discovering stories —
can mistake them for anything other than power plants of intellect and
opportunity. They are distributed without regard to wealth.
Over the last decade, they have not gotten anywhere near the kind of capital funding enjoyed by sports teams.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/24/nyregion/denying-new-york-libraries-the-fuel-they-need.html?emc=eta1&_r=0
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