vision2020@moscow.com: Re: "free" libraries

Re: "free" libraries

Lori Keenan (lkeenan@norby.latah.lib.id.us)
Wed, 16 Oct 1996 20:02:56 -0700 (PDT)

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>To: "Matt Kitterman" <matt@elder.csrv.uidaho.edu>
>From: lkeenan@norby.latah.lib.id.us (Lori Keenan)
>Subject: Re: "free" libraries
>
>Thanks for those figures, Matt. $6.00 is about the price of a trade
paperback, which probably won't keep you reading for more than 3 - 4 hours.
On the other hand - you could come to your local public library and have
access to thousands of books, hundreds of magazine subscriptions, hundreds
of videos, Internet access, storytimes for kids, summer reading programs for
more kids - all for that same $6.00 per year. Lori Keenan
>
>
>>On 16 Oct 96 at 8:47, Steve Cooke wrote:
>>Laird (?) wrote:
>>
>>> > Egad! Knowledge is NOT "free" at the library... In 1995 Idaho
>>> > property taxpayers happily paid $5,787,799.00 for so-called "free"
>>> > knowledge.
>>
>>Egad! indeed! That's almost $6 per person--just over a penny and a
>>half a day each!
>>
>>(That's a pretty good bargain in my book--quit yer moanin'.)
>>
>>matt 46.722438 N -117.005599 W
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