Robert McNees
The Brooklyn Public Library issues free library cards to kids across the US who have had their access to books limited by bans and censorship. Now the NYPL system is facing over $36 million in budget cuts.
Read more about #NoCutsToLibraries, and how folks in NYC can contact city leaders here:
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/standup
Anyone can directly support BPL’s programs here:
https://www.bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned
Robert McNees
Libraries are civic marvels.
Besides lending books and providing internet access, the Chicago Public Library lets you check out fishing poles, telescopes, cameras, knitting supplies, sewing machines, puzzles, tools, cooking equipment, a (model) human skull, sheet music, instruments, toys, museum passes, laptops, wifi hotspots, craft kits, seeds.
You can book meeting rooms or 3D printers. Some branches have teachers on site for homework help. Story time for kids, literacy programs for adults.
OddOpinions5
@mcnees
I live in Newton, MA, population ~ 90,000
so tiny compared to Chicago
but our town library does a lot of similar stuff !!
Robert McNees
@failedLyndonLaRouchite Love Newton, my wife did an event at a book store there and they were great
Lewis Cowles
@mcnees
Is there some history of when libraries started offering all the non-book stuff?
Robert McNees
@lewiscowles1986 Good question – I have no idea! Maybe a librarian would know?
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