Books for every reader’s taste line the shelves and boxes that fill a 12-by-14-foot room in the Shuman Center of Oak Hill Park, and Charlotte Cutter, 88, and Pat Bley, 71, serve as their gatekeepers.
Devastated by Newton’s 1991 decision to close the branch library in Oak Hill Park, Cutter, Bley, and their late friend, Ida Zellen, created their own. It could be a model for the future. Last month, Newton shut down its remaining branch libraries – Auburndale, Waban, Newton Corner, and Nonantum.
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