Libraries' new role as community centers
Photo credit: Kevin P. Coughlin | The Underground section for teens is furnished with contemporary surroundings at the Middle Country Public Library in Centereach, Long Island's largest public library. (Aug. 2, 2011)
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Kayla Stuart, 7, sat in the Nature Explorium garden classroom outside the Middle Country library in Centereach, happily drawing with chalk on the ground and on her own arms.
Rows of computers attracted more patrons than the surrounding stacks during a recent visit to the Patchogue-Medford library.
At the East Meadow library, signs for a painting class beckoned people past the books and...
