Centennial Year in a Golden Age

Murrysville Community Library (MCL) has just approved a Strategic Plan 2022-24. The MCL Foundation, besides giving input to it, is working on a companion document (see article of 4/13/22). And this year is the Centennial Celebration year for the MCL. How timely it was then that on New Year’s Day 2022 the Washington Post ran an opinion piece entitled “The Golden Age of Public Libraries Dawns Again.” Citation: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/01/01/public-libraries-golden-age/. It began with this: “As the world enters 2022, public libraries are emerging as one of the bright spots — literally. “An abundance of new and newly renovated libraries have opened their doors in the past two years. In addition to being breathtakingly beautiful, many are exemplars of what great communit…