Dora Waters often stops by the A C Bilbrew Library in unincorporated Willowbrook for a quiet space to write and stretch her legs. She lives at a homeless shelter and relies on its free Wi-Fi for work.

I admit that I wasn't always a local library lover in my adulthood. Of course, the library was a haven for me as a kid. They always had the new book in my favorite series, I knew tons of kids from the ...