The Boston Globe featured commentary from Sanda Erdelez, Dean of Simmons‘ School of Library and Information Science, on the remarkable resilience of public libraries, particularly those in New England. Despite book bans and other obstacles, she expressed that public libraries continue to thrive by curating creative programming and community-centric spaces.
“Libraries are constantly reinventing themselves,” Erdelez said. “Whoever was projecting libraries would be dead because of the transition to digital resources overestimated. Because it’s not only about books. It hasn’t been only about books for a long time.”