Every public building should express, with dignity Its individual type, use, place, and era. A library is a prominent public building As practical and technical as a schoolhouse; A workshop for the future, not a relic of the past. Seldom rich enough for its needs, it abhors waste. Change and growth will soon supplant it. Build it for use, not show; for now, not for ever:— Tastefully, tactfully, thriftily, thoroughly.…
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