Marc Fisher is all over the DC area public libraries. He writes the new director “has achieved Sunday opening hours for the libraries, an excellent move. And she’s intent on making the downtown Martin Luther King building more attractive, even if it is doomed as a central library. Watch for a Starbucks-style coffee facility to open there, along with other improvements.
But the city remains at sea over the future, purpose and function of its libraries, and as that struggle continues, the District’s readers–and more important, its non-readers–suffer the consequences.”
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