LIBRARIES ADVANCE AGAINST ALL ODDS

Neil Peirce of the Washington Post writes that "America's public libraries, fast turning themselves into "one-stop shops" for digital job searches, appear to be staging one of their great historic transformations." .... "What's amazing is that many libraries are able to maintain the bulk of their services and adapt to growing needs during a recession, even in the face of snowballing funding cuts by their local governments.

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