Over 2 billion items circulate annually in public libraries —almost 10 times more transactions than Amazon’s unit sales of books, movies and music!

"Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years." - Ray Bradbury