NexGen Librarian on Libraries
Christine Borne on why libraries matter [by the way, my mom was a librarian in a public school for most of my childhood]:
You may not realize this, but Ohio has the best public libraries in the country. That’s because of the Library and Local Government Support Fund (LLGSF), a statewide honeypot that essentially distributes dollars equitably among richer and poorer districts, allowing a sort of leveling of the playing field so that libraries in seriously depressed areas (like Southeast Ohio) will not have to close their doors when local levies fail.Now, equal access sounds nice and all, but I don’t think the taxpaying public at large understands much about what public libraries are for…
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This post was written by George, source: NexGen Librarian on Libraries
