And it's becoming clearer just how important "third places" — spaces for socializing outside of work and home — are.
Wood, who thinks libraries are "one of the last true third places," explained that there are a range of spaces in her library.
Abrams said he regularly drops by the New York Public Library just to pick up sticky buns from Amy's Bread, a bakery with an outpost in the library.
Eliza Relman/InsiderIn Boston, for instance, the Boston Public Library is thriving, Gregor Smart, the head of the Kirstein Business Library and Innovation Center at BPL, said.
Covid taught the library the need for things like Macs with webcams, for instance, so library goers can hop on Zoom or do job interviews.
Persons:
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