A good day for libraries...

TiL offers: "On this day in 1901 Andrew Carnegie offered New York City $5.2 million for the construction of 65 branch libraries. Of the 56.5 million given by Carnegie for over 2500 libraries in a dozen countries, this was his largest single grant, part of a wider attempt to gainsay those who attacked his "Gospel of Wealth" and to live up to his famous dictum: 'The man who dies thus rich, dies disgraced.'"

With luck, some of our current crop of hyper-moneyed will decide they need to do something to cement their legacy (Gates and Buffet notwithstanding).