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Old 10-25-2011, 12:31 AM   #57
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Originally Posted by BWinmill View Post
I think that you would find that school libraries are quite different from public libraries. ... Want a good book on electrical engineering, a deeper discussion of history, business databases, international newspapers, or just about anything considered too touchy for developing minds ...
See note below, many cities have college/university libraries that provide those things.

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In my city we have a community college and city library sharing a location and funding, the first new library location in 20 years.
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That's going to be a hard sell to people paying hundreds of dollars annually to the library through property taxes.
Correct, but I'm suggesting fewer services, less redundancy and therefore a reduction of taxes. Frankly, I suspect you will see increasing use of electronic resources and decreasing use of hard copy. As a result, we may find less need for the total number of locations we have now.

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And some countries do, as I mentioned in post #43.
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Where I live, the library is a private foundation. We don't have government involvement at all.
Interesting comments.
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