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fhdkweigtoday at 4:49 PM2 repliesview on HN

Schools in poor towns don't have multiple levels or basements or even extra storage rooms. What you see is all you get.

If there is enough space to have a room full of books, it would be better used as a publicly accessible set of stacks. The only real reason to have a librarian-only room is for books that are rare and valuable.


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WillAdamstoday at 4:56 PM

As I implied elsethread, the solution for that is better funding.

Someone needs to take up Carnegie's mantle and finish the job which he began.

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AtlasBarfedtoday at 7:48 PM

Society is completely overloaded with a vast surplus of commercial property. Something can be done