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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.
"Open to the public" means "some days, you really have to wonder about people."
There seems to be a preposterous level of goodwill.