Building Community One Book at a Time: Libraries are doing what politicians can’t | Consider This

A recent unattributed meme on social media reads, “I miss the old days when billionaires’ vanity projects were building public libraries, museums and music venues!” I owe Andrew Carnegie a debt of gratitude; I’m pretty sure if it hadn’t been for the Huron, South Dakota, Carnegie Public Library, I would have wound up in a juvenile corrections facility for matricide. 

I jest — kind of — but I spent…