The American family's best friend, the library, offers services guaranteed to hone coping skills. Libraries offend everyone. If you are not offended by something we own, please complain. Libraries offer sanctuary . Like synagogues, churches, mosques, and other sacred spaces, libraries can create a physical reaction, a feeling of peace, respect, humility, and honor that throws the mind wide open and suffuses the body with a near-spiritual pleasure.
Libraries preserve the past.
Libraries enable us to communicate through distance and time with the living and the dead.