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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
This is a very interesting discussion! Thanks to all who've participated so far.
It's interesting to me how institutions develop their own will to live, like all living things. The March of Dimes, for instance, began as an institution to battle polio. Once the polio vaccine was successfully developed, did they go away? Nope. They became an institution to battle birth defects. That mission should keep them in business for a good, long while.
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Ultimately, libraries may find that weaning themselves from the government teat is the best thing they can do. (NPR here in Southern California seems to be adapting quite nicely to that scenario.) Once free of the stigma that they are funded by our tax dollars, libraries might be surprised at the amount of private support they can muster.
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Excellent post. Totally agree.
