Watching My Beloved, Once-Eclectic Library Become Just Another Bastion of Orthodoxy
In 2018, the New York Times published an op-ed
[https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/08/opinion/sunday/civil-society-library.html]
that illustrated the traditional conception of the public library. Under the
headline, To Restore Civil Society, Start with the Library, sociologist Eric
Klinenberg wrote:
> For children and teenagers, libraries help