Anonymous Patron writes “David Kipen has Is time running out on public libraries — and literature? in the San Franciscon Chronicle. He asks: So do we just deconsecrate the Salinas Public Library, kiss off our old ideas about a literate society and go home? What, in addition to the always enjoyable wallowing in voluptuous despair, can be done?
For one thing, of course, libraries need more funding. They share this need, at the moment, with schools, health care, job training, foreign aid and just about everything else except the war — thanks to which, none of these should be expecting much help any time soon.”
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