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Discovery of Missing Prints Fails to Save Boston Library Leader’s Job

While much of Boston said the discovery had vindicated Ms. Ryan and said she should be reinstated, Mayor Martin J. Walsh, the only person who matters, did not.

A library leader unfairly scapegoated?

Some people who have worked with Ms. Ryan said her resignation was an unjust capstone to a stellar career, which began at the public library in Minneapolis.

“I think it sucks, frankly, that Marty accepted her resignation and doesn’t seem open to reconsidering,” the novelist Dennis Lehane (“Mystic River,” “Gone, Baby, Gone”) wrote in an email to The New York Times. Until recently, Mr. Lehane served as a library trustee. “It depresses me to know she’s no longer running that ship,” he said.

Aided by the convenience and constant access provided by mobile phones, 92% of teens report going online daily — with 24% using the internet “almost constantly,” 56% going online several times a day, and 12% reporting once-a-day use. Just 6% of teens report going online weekly, and 2% go online less often. (Report)

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