A public library today has information to improve people’s lives. We are an enabler; we are a connector.

The public money has dried up, in other words, but so has a whole lot of the private money. You might not have noticed the ramifications quite yet, but you will. It’s in the increasingly ardent pleas from your local NPR station, of course, but it’s also just absence: the film festival or day camp or curated exhibition or concert series that just... See more

The conversation is moving from ‘finding space for the arts’ to seeing culture as a core element of the city’s infrastructure that delivers wider public value