"Franklin is probably best known in the library community for founding the Library Company of Philadelphia in 1731. It was America's first lending library and can lay claim to being the predecessor of the free public library."
The whole idea of making books available to anyone was his.
It made books available to members who paid dues.
While I have the ultimate respect for Ben's legacy and contributions, I never once associated him with libraries.
Whatever Ben's musing on libraries were, it was Andrew Carnegie 100 years later who spent over $45 million (19th century dollars) founding more than 1700 free libraries in the United States alone. He was the 'father' of the free library system as we know it.
And I have little doubt that both Carnegie and Franklin would approve of naming this library after Douglass who was just as an accomplished and public spirited man as they were. Douglass is very well deserving, IMHO.