www.commondreams.org/view/2010/10/04-6


"Last week, the New York Times reported  on Library Systems & Services, a private, for-profit company that an increasing number of towns are contracting to take over their local public libraries. The company pares budgets and turns a profit by, among others things, replacing long-term employees with those who will "work." In the article, CEO Frank Pezzanite mocks "this American flag, apple pie thing about libraries" and ridicules the idea that "somehow they have been put in the category of a sacred organization." "

I'll bet that you would get a much bigger outcry if a school district decided to save money by cutting out the football team than the library.

Bottom line, everything needs to be run efficiently these days.  My observation, the administrations of many school systems and library systems have no concept of how to balance financial books separate from sticking their hands out, thinking that somehow they are exempt from the needs to improve efficiency and quality.

In the municipality next door to mine, the library system is decaying and school test scores are "worst in the county", yet they manage to fund and field athletic teams that regularly make it to the State Finals in basketball and football.

I'll bet that you would get a much bigger outcry if a school district decided to save money by cutting out the football team than the library.

Bottom line, everything needs to be run efficiently these days.  My observation, the administrations of many school systems and library systems have no concept of how to balance financial books separate from sticking their hands out, thinking that somehow they are exempt from the needs to improve efficiency and quality.

In the municipality next door to mine, the library system is decaying and school test scores are "worst in the county", yet they manage to fund and field athletic teams that regularly make it to the State Finals in basketball and football.


www.boston.com/yourtown/brookline/articles/2010/10/03/yes_theres_life_after_football/

On that vein, these are two very large colleges in Boston that did just that.  It is past time for colleges to return to the business of education instead of being publicly funded farm teams for the NFL

www.boston.com/yourtown/brookline/articles/2010/10/03/yes_theres_life_after_football/

On that vein, these are two very large colleges in Boston that did just that.  It is past time for colleges to return to the business of education instead of being publicly funded farm teams for the NFL


Your City, U.S.A.

Libraries versus stadium.

It's stadium every time.  That's what the voters want: A world class Sports Arena.  These are Biblical times.  This is like the Golden Calf. 

Think of it this way:  If you read books in a culture where people have forgotten how to read books, you hold much power...but you arouse much suspicion!

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So lovely to buying living in the death throes of America and the age where Intellectualism died. Not!

So lovely to buying living in the death throes of America and the age where Intellectualism died. Not!


Intellectualism?  How about just literacy?

Libraries are dangerous places for dictatorships.  When my dad was trying to write his thesis in Spain, he had the most frustrating time because they had all these great libraries in Madrid and Barcelona, but Franco didn't want anybody snooping around in them!
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