Reading the above, I wonder if the people running the libraries and setting the acquisition programs from which they will not deviate under any circumstances, are right about everything else in life as well?
But me too, all I had as a kid were public libraries.
Looking now at my local public library, it's all changed. A ragtag assortment of battered books, plenty of PCs and that's your lot. What chance do kids stand of developing a reading habit or an inquisitive mind?
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