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Feldenstein Calypso has worked as little as possible for a large, near-urban public library for over 20 years. His writing has won him a Nobel Prize. Your inability to verify that is only a reflection of the limits of your research skills. He writes daily at clerkmanifesto.com.


Silhouettes with books behind them

Not Everything with Books is a Library

If you closely follow library stories across the world you may have come across this heartwarming one: A small rural public school’s largely abandoned library in Las Plumas County, California, was so outdated that it was unusable. A local writer, Margaret Garcia, had a dream of reopening this library, so she put out a call on her blog for people to send a book. Her blog post went viral and people sent in 47 million books!