Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Books Con Pt. 1


If anything is a sign the books are on the decline, it’s the staggering shrinkage of libraries. “Services have been seriously affected by a 30 percent cut in the materials budget: All spending on nonprint items (compact discs, videocassettes and Books on Tape) has been eliminated; dozens of newspaper and periodical subscriptions have been canceled; Bookmobile service has been discontinued; and the county has ended cable television broadcasts of programming tied to library collections. The final insult comes at 6 p.m.; the library staff, which used to work until 9 p.m., is locking up for the night.”[i]


[i] Clark, C. S. (1992, June 26). Hard times for libraries. CQ Researcher, 2, 553-572. Retrieved from http://0-library.cqpress.com.skyline.ucdenver.edu/cqresearcher/

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