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Aug. 16th, 2010 12:54 pmSave your libraries, America. You need them.
From a Library Journal article about the devastating cuts to libraries: "Libraries are essential to our democracy...'in our opposition to censorship, our defense of privacy as a condition of intellectual freedom, our support of sharing as a fundamental process of scholarly inquiry, and out underlying belief that access to information should not be predicated on an individual's ability to pay.'"
Libraries are one of the few government funded institutions that actually work the way they are supposed. If your local library does not support the values listed in the quote above, they are not doing their job, and you need to oust their board of directors.
From a Library Journal article about the devastating cuts to libraries: "Libraries are essential to our democracy...'in our opposition to censorship, our defense of privacy as a condition of intellectual freedom, our support of sharing as a fundamental process of scholarly inquiry, and out underlying belief that access to information should not be predicated on an individual's ability to pay.'"
Libraries are one of the few government funded institutions that actually work the way they are supposed. If your local library does not support the values listed in the quote above, they are not doing their job, and you need to oust their board of directors.