From the Washington Post:
Immigrants and their children are making an already bustling system busier than ever. As the economic downturn and the Internet lure new patrons to libraries across the country, systems in the Washington suburbs are setting their own records in lending and a newer area of growth — visits.
The newcomers, simply by virtue of their needs, are quickly turning these libraries into community centers that function as job centers, English-language schools, keys to the mysteries of a new culture and even babysitters. And the libraries are carrying out this new mission even as they serve their traditional base of educated, English-speaking, often-affluent patrons . . .
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