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Hayden’s reputation as a technologically savvy reformer is well deserved, having modernized Baltimore’s flailing Enoch Pratt Free Library and ushered in a period of unprecedented expansion for Baltimore’s library system in an otherwise bleak time for the city. Hayden even became a beacon of stability and normalcy after the Freddie Gray riots with her decision to keep the library open despite the unrest.

With Hayden in the top job, policy advocates and scholars might have a glimmer of hope that the former crown jewel of American libraries can be pulled out of mothballs and dragged into the 21st century.

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Alumnus and longtime library employee left largely unrestricted bequest to U of New Hampshire. It is spending $100,000 on the library and $1 million on a video scoreboard for the football stadium.

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Alumnus and longtime library employee left largely unrestricted bequest to U of New Hampshire. It is spending $100,000 on the library and $1 million on a video scoreboard for the football stadium.

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Chief Justice John Roberts is slated to swear in Carla Hayden on Wednesday to lead the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, created in 1800 by President John Adams. Hayden, 64, the first woman and the first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress, sat down with USA TODAY’s Capital Download to talk about her battle against provisions of the USA Patriot Act and her decision to keep Baltimore’s libraries open in the wake of violence over the death of Freddie Gray. Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity.

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Chief Justice John Roberts is slated to swear in Carla Hayden on Wednesday to lead the Library of Congress, the world’s largest library, created in 1800 by President John Adams. Hayden, 64, the first woman and the first African American to serve as the Librarian of Congress, sat down with USA TODAY’s Capital Download to talk about her battle against provisions of the USA Patriot Act and her decision to keep Baltimore’s libraries open in the wake of violence over the death of Freddie Gray. Questions and answers have been edited for length and clarity.

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