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"There was a mutual understanding that, by the nature of the library space and my position as a librarian, I would, to the best of my abilities, not display my own biases or voice judgments of the patrons’ biases."

"They had a question, they entrusted it to me...It was not my job to judge people’s questions or find moral fault with them, or to investigate their motive. it was my job to help them find answers."

"The first American public library opened at a schoolhouse on Mason Street in Boston at 9:00 in the morning on March 20, 1854. The library stayed open until 9:30 that night, serving eighty visitors throughout the day. By the end of the year, there were 6,590 registered library users who frequented the library. In 1870 a second branch opened, and the Boston Public Library ... became the first American branch library"