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Originally Posted by Rylon
The main library in San Jose, where I spent my summers, used to let people check out chess sets. I once spent a whole summer playing chess and reading chess books. Great times.
Today I do see homework help going on at libraries. As well as literacy programs. Also, libraries are often attached to community centers and special events are promoted there. I don't see paper books going away anytime soon. Every time I go to a library, I see people checking out paper books. Also, when I look in the card catalog (well, online catalog) a lot of times I see the book I want checked out.
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Chess belongs in a community center, while homework help and literacy programs belong in the public schools. Libraries are in a budget crunch. It's time to jettison programs they have no business running and send them to the agencies that should've been running them all along.