teaperson writes “The Christian Science Monitor is the latest news outlet to cover the new Seattle Public Library, including the predictable irony of praise for books in Microsoft’s backyard. One nice quote:
“The thing that excites me is that the building getting all these raves is a library. It’s not a museum, not a ballpark, not an opera house,” says Deborah Jacobs, city librarian since 1997. “The statement this place makes is: Libraries and books are alive and thriving.”
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Seattle has a new library?
When did this happen?!