Palaces Of the People

The Washington Post has an OP-ED piece from US First Lady and Ex-librarian Laura Bush.


She has some mighty nice things to say about libraries.

\”School libraries — all libraries, for that matter — are more than warehouses for books. They are gathering places, literally community centers, and have been since 1638, when John Harvard donated money and books to create one of our nation\’s first libraries in Cambridge, Mass. \”