Quotes & Sayings About Boston Public Library

The point is not that books, magazines, and DVDs are dead - far from it. At places such as the redesigned Boston Public Library, popular publications and media materials in physical form circulate rapidly from prominent spaces close to the building's entrance. The point is that people's information habits have undergone a sea change - a major shift toward the digital. Libraries are trying to serve a wide range of patrons at many different points along an "adoption curve," with all-print at one end and all-digital at the other. — John Palfrey

The institution that had the greatest effect on Berenson's education was the Boston public library, the first in the country that allowed people to take books home to read them. — Rachel Cohen