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View Poll Results: How should libraries be run?
Pay to play 6 60.00%
If you can afford to buy books, don't use the library 2 20.00%
Who uses the library? 2 20.00%
We shouldn't even have libraries - I am a publisher 0 0%
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Old 04-20-2012, 12:20 AM   #31
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Wow. Where is that?
Small town in Texas with less than two thousand people.

I once lived seven miles from an Oklahoma town of about a hundred and fifty people that had a small library in the general store/natural gas company building.

Just because the tax base is too small for a government sponsered library is no reason to just not have one. If people really want a library they find a way. The same as with anything else.
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Old 04-20-2012, 01:14 AM   #32
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Just because the tax base is too small for a government sponsered library is no reason to just not have one. If people really want a library they find a way. The same as with anything else.
Littlefreelibrary.org is doing just that, and it's spreading, even to the Great White North. It doesn't have to be in a small tax base area either. Calgary already has a perfectly good library system, this is just neighbourhood icing on the cake.

Wonder what the BPH think of that little development?
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Old 04-20-2012, 01:28 PM   #33
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Littlefreelibrary.org is doing just that, and it's spreading, even to the Great White North. It doesn't have to be in a small tax base area either. Calgary already has a perfectly good library system, this is just neighbourhood icing on the cake.

Wonder what the BPH think of that little development?
Probably the same as they think about BookCrossing I enjoyed that for many years before e-books but there were people in the biz who weren't impressed and wanted everyone to obtain their books by buying them :P
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Our library has a banner right above the catalog search that states:
"Don't find what you're looking for? Ask us to buy it!"
Our bookmobiles stay in service because they get lots of patronage. I'm sure it's the same with the brick & mortar ones as well.
Also, thumbs up to the OP for re-thinking the situation and the inadequate poll... :^]
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