Just Sayin’: A look at our history and the world today

Libraries: from scrolls to searches By Jeff Rooney Heads up. If you borrowed a book from the Mesopotamian Library on the day it opened, 4,000 years ago, and haven’t returned it, you owe $292,000 in overdue fees. Libraries have served as the guardians of human knowledge for millennia, evolving from exclusive repositories for the elite to democratic institutions that welcome…