Introduction: Alexandria is still burning -- Guest author: Neil Gaiman -- America's first lending library: The Library Company of Philadelphia --Guest author: Amy Dickinson -- A library of mud: Steve Tinney and the Tablet Room at the University of Pennsylvania -- Guest author: Cory Doctorow -- To serve everybody: Nick Higgins, Rikers Island, and the Brooklyn Public Library -- Guest author: Jeff Vandermeer -- The little library that tried: Mary Anne Antonellis and the M. N. Spear Memorial Library, Shutesbury, Massachusetts -- Guest author: John Scalzi -- History you can hold: Julie Bartlett Nelson and the Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library, Northampton Massachusetts -- Guest author: Jude Deveraux -- Guest author: Amanda Palmer -- The American Girl: Briony Zlomke Beckstrom and the Franklin Public Library, Franklin, Wisconsin -- Guest author: Nancy Pearl -- Bringing the library to you: Bretagne Byrd and the Lewis & Clark Bookmobile, Montana -- Guest author: Paula Poundstone -- Guest author: Sara Farizan -- A Public Space: Tina Ely and the Greybull Public Library, Wyoming -- Guest author: Peter Sagal -- The Cathedral of Learning: Candice Mack and the Los Angeles Central Library -- Guest author: Samira Ahmed -- Archiving the past: Texas A&M and the University of Iowa: plus George R. R. Martin gives me some thoughts on libraries -- Guest author: Sangu Mandanna -- Afterword: Home again.
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