The 2020 Fallows Atlantic piece includes conjecture that libraries were positively acting and improvising in response to the coronavirus pandemic, noting that libraries would not understand the impact the pandemic had on them until later when “they’ll be figuring out what the experience means to their future operations and their role in American communities.”8 This implication that libraries were stepping up in ways they never had before is true. But this has less to do with libraries never responding to crises before and more to do with the global impact of this specific crisis, the first
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