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Long Live the Library

A Love Letter to the Rebel Punks in Cardigans

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Apr 09, 2025
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This week is National Library Week, and I’m here to shout—sorry, not whisper—from the reading room rafters…libraries are one of the greatest inventions in human history.

The first public libraries date back to the ancient world. Think Alexandria. Think Nineveh. They were created as a storehouse of knowledge. Fast-forward to 1731, when Benjamin Franklin a…

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