Libraries

[Walt Crawford]

I had in fact already read the whole thing, a couple of days ago. I guess
I'm more optimistic than he is; after a decade and more of continuously
growing public use of libraries, I don't see that collapsing in seven
years.

On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:50 PM, James Olson <olsonjam at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> I hope you took the trouble to read further.  The article is set in 2020,
> and it's difficult to be informed about that period of history.
>
> His points are interesting and worth thinking about.  Mostly we need to
> persuade the various legislatures that the US is not a third-world country,
> and we can afford first-world public institutions, or what he describes
> will come to pass, more for the haves, and nothing for the have-nots.
>
>
> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Walt Crawford <waltcrawford at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Maybe, but when I hit a sentence like this one:
>>
>> "The bad news is nobody uses the library anymore"
>>
>> I'm not inclined to take the author seriously. The bad news is that the
>> author is seriously misinformed.
>>
>> -walt crawford-
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 2:15 PM, Louise Moe <LOUISE at rochester.lib.mn.us>wrote:
>>
>>> Really interesting article!
>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://semanticstudios.com/publications/semantics/000664.php
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