No More Shushing

The library revolution

by Shelley Daily

posted 11/24/2009

"I want to blow up people's perceptions of libraries."

Chelsea District Library director Bill Harmer--and others like him--are doing just that. At what once were quiet, staid, small-town libraries, a revolution is taking place. It's as if the kids whom librarians used to shush up are the ones in charge now. Bookworms take cover: it can get loud and wild in the stacks.

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