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Tuesday, October 19, 2010

Running the Books

For further proof of the transformative power of libraries, check out “Running the Books” by Avi Steinberg. Steinberg became a librarian at a Massachusetts prison, and his tale provides ample evidence of the importance of libraries in the souls who use them.

For the NYT review of the book click here.

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