city library

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They leaned on social media outreach, door knocking, rallies and a nonpartisan message stressing the common good that was the city library.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 28, 2025

“I have nothing,” he said, as he tried to make some money repairing an old car at a homeless encampment across from the city library.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023

With it, I went to the city library, which overlooks a pedestrian plaza bordering a modernized tram line.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2022

“The Friends has been very careful not to fund, through private philanthropy, the business of being the library: being a city library means paying for hours, staff, facilities maintenance.”

From Washington Times • Dec. 16, 2019

There it was, monster, in black and white, in a battered dictionary in a great city library.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides