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Originally Posted by murraypaul
Perhaps it is differences between countries, but coming from the UK, the idea of referring to (state provided) libraries as charities just seems bizarre.
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I would have thought the opposite, because of this:
Services continue to be targets for local authority budget cuts, with remaining services increasingly reliant on voluntary staff
If someone wants to say it's not the library that's a charity, but the
"Friends of" group behind it, that's fine with me. I do not, but you could even say that, in a state like Ohio, which has, by national and international standards, high public library funding, the library isn't a very good charity.
What about a third world village reading room?