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An excited Stella Hobbs, 19-months-old, chooses a new toy at the Minnesota Toy Library, located in the Progressive Baptist Church on Burns Avenue in St. Paul, on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2025. (John Autey / Pioneer Press)
People are familiar with how a book library works: You view and select from a collection of books and borrow one or two for a certain amount of time…