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Book Deserts
Fight for Libraries, Prevent Book Deserts, by Josh Corman, bookriot.com, 4/7/14; to read the article (which is very eye-opening): http://bookriot.com/2014/04/07/fight-libraries-prevent-book-deserts...
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Permalink Reply by Flowergram on
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Thanks for the article - I am using the computer and a Kindle to read but still love my local library. The librarians are always well read and well informed - they do a wonderful job we all take for granted. Last election we had the ballot had a levy for the library. It passed - thanks for that. My greatest escape has always been in a good book and I hope never to live to see a book desert.
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Permalink Reply by officerripley on
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Me too, Flowergram, I read with both the Kindle & Nook apps but also love regular books & the library, in fact I volunteer at ours. I'm not too optimistic about our next election for library funding tho: 1 of the librarians told me that 1 of our patrons, when she wrote a letter to 1 of the supervisors urging him to please vote to keep the library open more hours, he responded to her, "The library! Not only do I not intend to vote to keep it open more hours, if I had my way I'd close the doors to that place for good. I figure every hour that darn place is open means another drug dealer on the streets!" So that's the kind of thinking we got around here unfortunately. Sigh.
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Permalink Reply by Mandy Muffin on
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I have been a patron of libraries all my life. Like most people today, I have gravitated to the use of E-Books as they are more convenient, and most are reasonably priced if you shop around. But I visit my local library at least weekly, and supplement my reading with a borrowed book from time to time. I have even borrowed E-Books from the library. I also enjoy the numerous programs they put on, such a penguin encounter I attended last summer.
Libraries, like much of our modern culture, must redefine their roles in the future of America. As America makes difficult choices among scarce resources, libraries will need a spirit of innovation to survive or they will go the way of the horse and buggy. I would hate to have to make the choice but someone needs to. Campaigns to save certain parts of our culture need to be off-set with alternatives that can be cut instead. IMHO, there is so much silliness that goes on with taxpayer money that it shouldn't be hard. I don't agree with demonizing people who are trying to be fiscally responsible. We have to sit around the kitchen table like adults and make those choices. Unfortunately, I don't see much of this going on in politics today.
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Go to cnn.com/ for an article on 4-14-14 Libraries dying? Think again.
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Which is precisely my point, Flowergram, those libraries that are innovative, and I consider the one in my home town of Florence KY, to be among the best in the nation, change with the times and find the funding to keep them going. Boon County Library: http://www.bcpl.org/library/locations/ Just recently built, it is the biggest and most beautiful building in town, not a desert. With six branches, it is a cultural center with a host of activities, that keeps the parking lot filled and the funding coming. Nobody is going to close it down, not even Paul Ryan. Kentucky gets one of the lowest levels of federal monies in the nation. We take care of our own, including our libraries. In Florence, we don't blame our problems on Paul Ryan.
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Aw go ahead and blame your problems on Ryan; seems like something he'd be proud of. ;-)
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