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Re:“The books will stop working.” by GlenTheMachine on Thursday June 27, 2019 @05:30PM (#20298996)
To be fair, it’s not like DC doesn’t have public libraries. Also, the original DC Carnegie building sits on some of the most expensive real estate in the country.
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Re:“The books will stop working.” by kbenson on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:34PM (#20299552)
What better way to signal the importance of libraries than to have one on that expensive real estate?

Or what better way to signal a change in values than to stop having one on that same real estate.

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Re:“The books will stop working.” by ciscoriordan on Thursday June 27, 2019 @06:54PM (#20299711)
They moved due to overcrowding:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_Library_of_Washington....

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