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To: KyrosL who wrote (71959)1/3/2010 11:02:12 AM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Kyros, while the local authorities will not disappear, they are suffering large financial gaps in their budgets.

According to tv last night, various cities in California are shutting down library services.

I have enjoyed free library services in Escondido, namely the internet. That was nice and I did pay some state taxes via by purchasing in the state, so by making the place attractive, they do get some revenue from foreigners, but it seems overly generous to pay for my internet requirements.

In general libraries have passed their use-by date. The internet delivers tsunamis of information.

I was an avid user of the Onehunga Carnegie Library as a child and it enabled me to imagine things and understand them which I am now bringing to fruition. So I'm well aware of the importance of information to people. But there were no sources of information other than that [school being very limited and I don't recall any other means of finding out about things - we didn't have even rudimentary television at the time, which in any event remains useless for getting information though it has been useful for news].

Andrew Carnegie provided a great public service by giving such libraries around the world. My CDMA, Globalstar and other ideas got impetus there.

Libraries could be sold to private collectors who might or might not make the information available to people at a price.

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