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LIBRARIES:
Do We Really Need Libraries?
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Do We Really Need Libraries?
May 05, 201511:03 AM ET
Linton Weeks
NPR
http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/
2015/05/05/403529103/do-we-really-need-libraries
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/ldfys88
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The proceedings of the 1983 conference, by the way, were titled: "Do We
Really Need Libraries?"
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The answer seems self-evident. We are asking the same question more than
30 years later and many libraries are teeming with people. As the British
study pointed out, there is a lot of opportunity when reckoning with
naysayers "for developing costs per benefits but we do need to spend more
time establishing exactly what these benefits are."
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What are the benefits of libraries in this day and age?
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Like a good librarian, Tony Marx of the New York Public Library has some
answers. Today's libraries still lend books, he says. But they also
provide other services to communities, such as free access to computers
and Wi-Fi, story times to children, language classes to immigrants and
technology training to everyone.
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"Public libraries are arguably more important today than ever before,"
Marx says. "Their mission is still the same to provide free access to
information to all people. The way people access information has changed,
but they still need the information to succeed, and libraries are
providing that."
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Or as Andrew Carnegie said many years ago: "A library outranks any other
thing a community can do to benefit its people. It is a never failing
spring in the desert."
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Besides, Story Hour online just wouldn't be the same.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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