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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