Alva Review-Courier -

NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — The human chain stretched all the way across Andrews Park, snaking between picnic tables and pavilions, past a kickball game, over two roads and across a parking lot.

The chain ended on both sides in libraries, one old and one new. In between were the people who had loved the old library, some for decades, and people who were ready to welcome the new one.

The chain was a book brigade, a line of people passing books from the old Norman Public Library Central to the new Norman Central just across the park.

The brigade recently showed out several hundred strong, forming a lin...