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Knight Foundation drops $3M for projects that ‘leverage libraries as a platform’

Now that books and research are available from anywhere, what should libraries become? That’s the question the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation asked — except when you’re the Knight Foundation, you have millions of dollars to help find the answer.

The Chicago-based philanthropy named 22 projects that are together receiving $3 million in funding from the Knight News Challenge on Libraries.

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