The yearly ALA (American Library Association) conference was in the conference center across the street from that library last weekend. I wonder how many noticed the metaphor to what is happening to libraries in general?
To be fair, it’s not like DC doesn’t have public libraries. Also, the original DC Carnegie building sits on some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
Wow ... that's .. is that irony? I don't even know.
It's straight up dystopian that's what it is.
The yearly ALA (American Library Association) conference was in the conference center across the street from that library last weekend. I wonder how many noticed the metaphor to what is happening to libraries in general?
Ha! Walked by it when I was there, I thought the same thing.
To be fair, it’s not like DC doesn’t have public libraries. Also, the original DC Carnegie building sits on some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
What better way to signal the importance of libraries than to have one on that expensive real estate?
Or what better way to signal a change in values than to stop having one on that same real estate.
They moved due to overcrowding:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Library_of_Washington....
Not the one in Mount Pleasant!