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Memory palaces. (libraries)(Learning in Las Vegas)
Just before 9:00 a.m. on a summer morning in Las Vegas, you will see homeless people lined up in the shade of a stone wall and children standing with parents near a parking lot, waiting for the downtown library to open. Once inside, the two groups diverge. The homeless move to the tables and carrels in the library to rest; the children and parents gravitate toward the discovery museum, which shares the same building. Few people actually read. That may have to do with where we are. "`Las Vegas library' seems like an oxymoron," a librarian there told me. "People come here for the gaming and the climate, not to read." But I think the lack of interest in reading has as much to ...
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