An Internet-enabled computer runs at the Brooklyn Public Library June 24, 2003, in New York City. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
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When former librarian and author Jean Armour Polly first introduced the idea of having computers in libraries in the early 1980s, she was met with pushback.
“People scoffed and said, ‘Why would you go to a library to use a computer?’ ” she said.
Even when the internet rolled around, many librarians felt they were supposed to be the sole gatekeepers of knowledge and information.
“But I
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