Statement on Clovis-Carver Public Library Incident

The following is a statement from New York Public Library President Tony Marx about the deadly August 28 shooting at Clovis-Carver Library in New Mexico: 

An attack on a public library is an attack on the basic American idea of an inclusive, civic-minded, and informed society. The New York Public Library stands with its colleagues in New Mexico and around the country in defense of those values. Our thoughts are with the Clovis-Carver Public Library, which is now all the more close to our hearts, and the victims of this senseless tragedy.