The people's library, free clothes and gourmet soup kitchen were gone now, or reduced to shadows of their former selves.
That's Facebook's fault, not the British Library's - their user settings need to be changed in line with people's expectations.
There's a huge music room at the library where people can simply listen to CDs of great artists.
More than quarter of a million people use North Yorkshire's library services.
And Oreo's ad featured a showdown in a library between people fighting over whether the cookie or the cream is the best part of the cookie.
Sheffield City Council said it wanted to hear people's views on its 28 library buildings and services.
The American people, through the nation's library, will receive a post-holiday gift of vintage sound recordings from one of the world's largest recording companies.
"The Packard Campus and its employees will work hard to protect the Library's comprehensive collection and make these recordings accessible to the American people and this generous contribution by Universal Music will help preserve our nation's rich cultural heritage, " said Congressman Eric Cantor, Majority Leader for the 112thCongress and U.S. Representative from the 7thDistrict of Virginia, which includes Culpeper.
He also stressed the value of community services, such as the local library, and warned that people should "think twice before dismantling what's already there".
Since then, membership has climbed from 6 million to 23 million in the U.S. as people have embraced the idea of watching instantly an ever-expanding library of movies and TV shows on the hundreds of consumer electronics devices capable of streaming movies and TV shows from Netflix right to members' TVs.
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This public domain material is an important part of the world's heritage and we're proud to be working with the British Library to open it up to millions of people in the UK and abroad.
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