Libraries are a lost, useless institution and it’s time to fix them
OPINION: I'm sure there's some cultural import to using 15 linear metres of shelf space for the collected works of Stephen King but I can't think what.
There is a problem with modern libraries. It is the same problem across society: The people responsible for maintaining our institutions have forgotten the original purpose of those institutions.
Recently I asked my local library to buy a book which wasn’t in its catalogue, titled “The Process of
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Libraries are a lost, useless institution and it’s time to fix them
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