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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Silver Spring MD library goes so much further than any of the DC ones when it comes to the amount of space devoted to safe warm quiet seats for homeless people to stare into space. Several dozens last time we were there. The kids library has signs saying that you will have to relocate if you don’t have children. But the rest of the few floors of the library are as much of a shelter as a library at this point.[/quote]

Do we need libraries at this point? Everything is online. Convert them to all to shelters and retrain the staff. [/quote]

Spoken like a true philistine.[/quote]

It's not wrong. Libraries today are more useful and valuable as community centers than repositories for books. Most people access the parts of the books they need to for school or research electronically via PDFs, and those who are fervent readers buy books. You could even more to a centralized library model where you have one big warehouse or even a few warehouses of books throughout the city that can ship requested books to the library on demand a la Amazon Prime.[/quote]

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