“Friends of the library” usually refers to people who donate books or bags of cash to a venerable institution. But on MySpace, it means something else entirely.
Like so many teenagers and twentysomethings, the library of the City University of New York’s Brooklyn College has a page on MySpace, the popular social-networking site. And there it has garnered more friends than a high-school homecoming queen—close to 1,700, most of them current or former Brooklyn College students. (The Chronicle, subscription required)
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