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Armed With Broadband, Libraries Are Resuscitating Communities Ravaged by COVID-19

No offense to Melvil Dewey, but what does his system of decimals have on the algorithmic horsepower of the Google search engine?

Armed With Broadband, Libraries Are Resuscitating Communities Ravaged by COVID-19
Photo of Library Director Matt DeLaney courtesy Millinocket Memorial Library

May 27, 2020 — What’s the role of a library in a time of crisis? Truthfully, I had no idea. Probably none, I would have thought.

Libraries to this 20-something tech reporter represented a societal relic. A cultural residue of older solutions to problems. One that has been preserved either for the whims of researchers who wear half-moon glasses, or for nostalgia.

No offense to Melvil Dewey, but what does his system of decimals have on the algorithmic horsepower of the Google search engine?

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