Laura Ospina, Contributing Photographer
On a rainy Saturday in the Ives Main Library on Elm Street, New Haveners are not just reading.
Along with flipping through books and newspapers, visitors wait for passport renewals, mend clothes using free sewing supplies and leaf through tax assistance booklets. Even on a slow afternoon, the library’s halls echo with the whirring of the 3D printer, intermittent laughter and chatter of patrons and librarians greeting each other as they pass.
For acting city librarian Maureen Sullivan, this public space is powered by workers and librarians who are “deeply committed to understanding the nature of their local community.”
Recently, the New Haven Free…
