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I was in our local library yesterday with my daughter. we spent a few hours reading on their fantastic sofas.
Then worked together on a story she's writing.
Whilst we were doing that I noticed loads of students who had met up in groups to do their homework together.
They had obviously used the library as a meet up place to work together.
Most of them had school supplied/subsidised laptops. I know this as my son is in high school and has one of those subsidised laptops.
Also they were using free internet via wifi to help with their studies.
There was also lots of other groups of people. Older people using the internet and browse, check email, whatever.
Kids playing on consoles provided by the library.
There was a justice of the peace there providing free certifying of documents.
It's also a central hub for local clubs to meet up and use for free. I use the club rooms to goto a Boardgames club, which is great fun.
This is probably the tip of the iceberg for what our local library provides in addition to 1000s of great books, DVDs etc.
I can only speak for libraries in Australia and maybe only specifically in Queensland. But I will happily pay taxes towards an invaluable service like this. Even if I never used it as it clearly helps a lot of people in life.
It would be a tragic and terrible loss to society to lose our libraries. For shame on those who think they need to go.
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