Ashley Hawkins writes: “When I came to my school library in 2018, it was a dump. I mean that literally. Old books filled the school library. Posters were still up from the last time students or school librarians had occupied the space. That was 2006, when the original high school was broken into smaller high schools during New York City’s restructuring of its high school system. It’s a reasonably typical story in New York City, where most schools do not have a library” despite regulations that every school in the state have one.