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To: Conan the Librarian

I love libraries!
Its the only way I can still live in my home - otherwise my house would be dangerously full of books and I’d be broke!


8 posted on 10/11/2010 1:36:48 PM PDT by Little Ray (The Gods of the Copybook Heading, with terror and slaughter return!)
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To: Little Ray
Libraries are one of the great equalizers out there and one of the few things which I do not resent paying taxes to support. When properly used, they help people find jobs, research, broaden their horizons and continue their education at a very nominal price.

Many are also repositories of valuable records and archives which might be lost forever without the efforts of libraries.

Too many have been turned into work stations for drones on government jobs, but that does not invalidate their worthwhile functions.

Given the proper incentives, I could see businesses or a group of businesses sponsoring the operation of libraries in much the same way religious organizations sponsored charitable institutions at a more sane time in our history.

9 posted on 10/11/2010 2:42:53 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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