Hometown Summit 2017

There are more libraries in the United States--over 9,000--than there are McDonald's restaurants. This tremendous infrastructure of tax-supported learning institutions blossomed around the turn of the last century, as a resource allowing children and adults not only to improve their literacy, but to gain the knowledge  required by the emerging trades of the modern industrial era. As our country enters a new era of technological and economic change, how can libraries once again emerge as “lyceums”--centers of education, skill development, and civic association?