Libraries! A Video and an Article

Why The Next Big Pop-Culture Wave After Cupcakes Might Be Libraries

. . . Call it a hunch, but it seems to me that the thing is in the air that happens right before something — families with a million kids, cupcakes, wedding coordinators — suddenly becomes the thing everyone wants to do happy-fuzzy pop-culture stories about. Why?

Libraries get in fights. . . .

Librarians know stuff. . . .

Libraries are green and local. . . .

Libraries will give you things for free. . . .

"Open to the public" means "some days, you really have to wonder about people." . . .

There seems to be a preposterous level of goodwill. . . .