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Archive for January, 2007
Library Purchases 5 acre site
Friday, January 26th, 2007The following press release was sent to the local papers by the library board:
On December 26 the Goshen Public Library and Historical Society took its first step toward a new library that will serve the needs of our community well into the future. We closed on the purchase of a five acre parcel of land [...]
Why does the community need a new library when it has amazon.com and Netflix?
Thursday, January 25th, 2007The public library is often referred to as the People’s university. In 1852, in a report to the City Council, trustees of the Boston Public Library “noted that the role of the public library extended far beyond the support of formal education when they stated that the library ‘was also seen to be the next [...]
