From the Washington Post Department of Data (gift link): “Who uses public libraries the most?”
Saturday, October 12, 2024
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Nancy, October 19, 1950.
“Who are we as a country?”
Michael Leddy
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Every day is a new deal.
Harvey Pekar, “Alice Quinn”
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Nos plus grandes craintes, comme nos plus grandes espérances, ne sont pas au-dessus de nos forces, et nous pouvons finir par dominer les unes et réaliser les autres. [Our worst fears, like our greatest hopes, are not outside our powers, and we can come in the end to triumph over the former and to achieve the latter.]
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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try.
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I don’t really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it’s always nice, I’ll grant you, if he has one.
J.D. Salinger, Seymour: An Introduction
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comments: 2
Oh~ I'm on my laptop this morning, and here I get the old comment form, with your brief intro: "Play fair. Keep it clean. No potshots and no derailing. Thanks."
No call to "please be relevant" though...
Anyway, I wanted to say thanks for this link--I was heartened that so many Americans DO approve of libraries, even those who don't use them.
And wowed at the numbers of items circulated--around 10 million in NYC, Chicago, and... King County Library System Issaquah, Wash.?!?!
Yep, I changed it back. I shortened it a while ago. Or someone did (!).
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