An exhibition at Te Tuhi by artist Mickey Smith refers to the “fraught legacy” of Andrew Carnegie, that famous philanthropist who made his billions through the steel mills of America, at the expense of the workers who slaved for minimal wages in conditions that were dangerous and dirty.  He donated his fortune to education, and most famously to the development of public libraries in communities all over the world. It might have been “tainted money”, as many disdainfully claimed.  It at least prompted communities in New Zealand to fall in behind the idea that collections of books and archives of materials ought to not just be the preserve of the wealthy.