Public Library Heaven

All my professional life, I have believed that Ohio was public library heaven. I may have been, to quote Rick Blaine, misinformed. I'm writing this from the OBA, the public library in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. This building opened less than a year ago, on 7 July 2007 (7/7/07). In its first six months, it drew one million visitors, more than twice the number who had visited the old facility. It now averages 5,000 visitors a day, with 8,000 to 10,000 visiting on weekend days. The strikingly bea