For those without money, the road to that treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library.

Those diplomas on my wall would not be there without the GI Bill that educated my father, without the public library, without the RIPTA bus.

The public library is where I studied. It's where my grandfather taught himself English.

The public library system of the United States is worth preserving.

My first memory of the public library is of lugging home a volume of Norse myths as heavy as a thunder-god's hammer.

The sentiment I hear most from the general public is that they used to put up with the library being shabby because the city was broke. But now that the city has come back in the last 10 years , the expectation has changed.