Fresh from VALISblog comes this item from Vermont’s Battleboro Reformer:
Public libraries, once considered solely as book-lenders, are beginning to supplant town halls, churches and schools as the main gathering place of local communities, say officials from the Vermont Department of Libraries.
But this change, brought on in part by the advent of the Internet, requires a new way of looking at what libraries are expected to offer.
“For a time, small libraries didn’t have to provide so many services, but the reality now is that no library is too small to use, for example, inter-library loans,” said Grafton resident and librarian Amy Howlett. “We need a good conversation in Windham County on what a good library is.”
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