Kathye Fetsko Petrie, the author who successfully predicted Oprah’s interest in Marquez, says that in addition to the claims of the Library Company and Redwood Library mentioned earlier this morning, Philadelphia’s Darby Free Library, founded in 1743, bills itself as “America’s oldest public library,” which is not the same thing as being the nation’s oldest lending library.
While we’re on the subject, anybody know if some library has a really old bookmobile on display?