Wait, the US cares about libraries now? Aren’t they actively defending things like Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library? I saw WA state removed it from the budget.
They’re going to start burning books any minute now
They will say its government efficiency to save money. “Why would we keep spending so much money on heating our homes with all these expensive expenses? We have piles of books made of fire starter! There’s just words on it. Do you want words or do you want a fire? In my day we spoke words over a fire, not instead of a fire. We need to make fires great again” - donald trump probably
“There is only one building in North America, probably in the world, where one can browse bestsellers and children’s books by crossing an international border and then sit for an amateur theatre troupe in a regal opera house with each half of your body in two different countries.”
Okay that’s a rather stringent set of requirements, written specifically for this library, but there are many buildings across the world that sit on international borders. That includes residential homes. There are people who literally have to cross a border to get from their bed to their shower in the morning.
Not the point of the article, I know, but really that could’ve been written better.
So it’ll just be the border library then?