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the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: __ur attention cannot be bought and sold in a library._ As a tradition barely a century and a half old in the United States, it gives physical form to the principle that public access to knowledge is the foundation of democracy ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do," The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].
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the library is the last free space for the gathering and sharing of knowledge: __ur attention cannot be bought and sold in a library._ As a tradition barely a century and a half old in the United States, it gives physical form to the principle that public access to knowledge is the foundation of democracy ["What Libraries Can (Still) Do," The New York Review Daily, October 26, 2015].

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