In most U.S. cities, the last place to find steady crowds right through the Christmas shopping season is the public library. In Atlanta, things were different this December, and with reason. A few days after Thanksgiving, the city threw open its enlarged and vigorously modernized main building; the customers crowded in all month to borrow books, or just to browse, at a rate that astonished old library hands. In what was supposed to be an "off month," there were hardly enough seats to go round.
A good deal of the credit for all this bustle belonged to Atlanta's new librarian. Two years...
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