Around Pittsburgh, Libraries Are Cool — Especially as the Temperature Soars

In the Pittsburgh area, the Library Social Work Fellowship, operated through Pitts’s School of Social Work, places social workers in libraries across Allegheny County. “There was a time where we had a lot of community spaces. There were community centers in every neighborhood,” said Alicia Melnick, an assistant professor at Pitt who oversees the program. “Libraries have sort of transformed into a space that’s taken the place of that.” Read more in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.