Janet Clark writes:
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In Alberta most public libraries charge a membership fee. Librarians know
the arguments for and against that. Not a deterrent, some say. The
January/February 2001 issue of _Alberta News_ story \’Banff\’s very public
library\’ by Shelley Mardiros tells how Banff removed the fee and had three
times as many new members as in the previous January:
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On the following pages in the print version someone sent me is \’Book angel:
taking the spirit of reading to the back roads in a blue Chevy Astro\’ by
Dan Rubenstein. The story is about seventy-on-year-old Kathleen Evans who
provides reading material to rural kids, on her own time and at her own
expense. I can\’t seem to find this story in the electronic version, but I
recommend it – we always need that warm fuzzy counterpoint to the filtering
and e-book stories.
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