The second premise — and this was something that was very difficult for us to convince the librarians of at first — is that libraries, since the inception of Carnegie Library tradition in America, had a second responsibility, and that was for social roles.
La segunda premisa — y nos costó mucho convencer a los bibliotecarios de esto al principio es que las bibliotecas, desde el comienzo de la tradición de la Biblioteca Carnegie en EE.UU. tuvieron una segunda responsabilidad, un rol social.