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The case for public and academic shared libraries in Connecticut

When the University of Connecticut returned to downtown Hartford in 2017, its extensive West Hartford undergraduate and graduate school library had to follow. In an innovative collaboration with the Hartford Public Library in downtown Hartford and the independent Hartford Public Library association which manages and operates it, the university relocated its resources to the Hartford Library one block from the restored 1920’s Hartford Times Building whose façade graces the University’s new downtown  facility.