#library love
Latest Library Haul!! I’m really excited to read The Watch That Ends The Night and Heartstopper!
Found this copy on the top floor of Senate House Library hidden in between philosophy tomes…..clearly many a student before me has had the pleasure.
The single most useful book for a Machiavelli essay, it probably hasn’t sold a million copies but the countless highlights and scribbles throughout the weathered pages are as good a review as an author can get (…I would imagine, anyway).
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Cafe in a church ☕️
These books changed the lives of New York Public Library librarians while growing up. What book changed your life?
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Libraries are not the kinds of institutions that most social scientists, policymakers, and community leaders usually bring up when they discuss social capital and how to build it. But they offer something for everyone, regardless of whether they’re a citizen, a permanent resident, or even a convicted felon – and all of it for free.
Doing research in New York City, I learned that libraries and their social infrastructure are essential not only for a neighborhood’s vitality but also for buffering all kinds of personal problems – including isolation and loneliness.
In essence, libraries are truly holding us all together in ways that we often take for granted.
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