The mission of Telescopes for Libraries is to supply each public library in the United States with a powerful, easy-to-use telescope to help stimulate interest in science and foster scientific literacy. Astronomy is the oldest science of them all, and lends itself readily to multidisciplinary connections. Libraries could check out the telescope to patrons for week-long loans, or have a local amateur astronomer set it up periodically for public viewing nights.

O, telescope, instrument of much knowledge,
more precious than any sceptre, is not he who
holds thee in his hand made king and lord of
the works of God?
- Johannes Kepler

"The best thing that we're put here for's to see;
The strongest thing that's given us to see with's
A telescope. Someone in every town
Seems to me owes it to the town to keep one.
In Littleton it may as well be me."

The Star-Splitter by Robert Frost

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