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One Teens' Opinion on Libraries
December 3, 2008 - 3:35pm — birdie
...from LA Youth, "the newspaper by and about teens". She goes from absolutely hating libraries to proclaiming 'libraries rule'.
Recent comments
- If it's taxpayer supported
6 hours 23 minutes ago - great idea for a master's thesis
7 hours 40 minutes ago - Not everyone can afford an
8 hours 21 minutes ago - When they go down
8 hours 54 minutes ago - I hadn't seen the original
1 day 1 hour ago - are we going to start lending
1 day 3 hours ago - Wow
1 day 4 hours ago - It's "Paperless" NOT "Without Books"
1 day 4 hours ago - Sounds fair to me
1 day 12 hours ago - we all deserve hefty salaries Stephen
2 days 5 hours ago
Recent blog posts
- Marketing Libraries to Men: Beyond Tom Clancy and W.E.B. Griffin
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- The Bradbury Chronicles
- Cites & Insights 13:6 (June 2013) now available
- Brought to You by Mountain Dew
- Book: Fear Less
- The End of Power
- If you don't read my dog, I'll shoot this book.
- Cites & Insights 13:5 (May 2013) available
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Comments
The Grove
"I hated my family’s weekly outings to Barnes & Noble at the Grove and got constant headaches when I went in a library or a bookstore."
Anyone with any sense of individuality would hate the "Grove". Mass marketing to a bunch of materialistic minded consumers......
There is no way in Hades to compare a library to a bookstore, especially one in the Grove.