Save the Libraries – Robert C. Thornett

Save the Libraries – Robert C. Thornett

American steel tycoon Andrew Carnegie donated over $40 million to construct 2,509 libraries—1679 in the US and others in the UK, Ireland, Canada, and even distant countries like Serbia, Malaysia, and Fiji. By 1919, nearly half of the 3,500 libraries in the United States were Carnegie libraries. “A library outranks any other one thing a community can do to benefit its people,” said Carnegie. “It is a never failing spring in the desert.”By contras…