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A majority of Americans feel libraries are doing a good job of providing a safe place for people to hang out or spend time as well as opening up educational opportunities for people of all ages.

大多数美国人认为，在为人们提供闲逛或消遣的安全场所，以及为各个年龄段的人们提供教育机会方面，图书馆做得很好。

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The world I live in values libraries as innovators and saviors of information access for all.

我生活的世界把图书馆看作是让所有人获取信息的创新者和救星。

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With hundreds of libraries earmarked for closure, are people just going to stop venturing into libraries at all?

BBC: Can libraries survive in a digital world?

Last August, libraries in Surrey accounted for 20% of all UK loans of the Fifty Shades series, Surrey County Council said.

BBC: Erotic fiction fuels Surrey library loans

When in January of this year the insurgents torched two libraries belonging to the Ahmed Baba Institute, as they were retreating from Timbuktu, the covert rescue operation was already half-complete - and the libraries themselves had been all but empty for months.

BBC: How Timbuktu's manuscripts were smuggled to safety