Read it and weep: New Orleans libraries are in ruins

Andrei Codrescu’s column in The Villager says Hurricane Katrina devastated the New Orleans Public Library. All of its 13 buildings were damaged; eight of them are completely unusable: books, furniture, computers, all destroyed. Eighty percent of the employees were laid off. Recovery will be a long process. Libraries around the country are helping, but many of them are not in such great shape themselves, having had their budgets slashed over and over during decades of laissez-faire capitalism.

January 27, 2006 by Uncategorized 2

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  1. kylere says:
    January 27, 2006 at 8:16 pm

    Hrm
    Calling what the US has “laissez-faire capitalism” is a clear indication of someone who does not know what the term means, or has not actually been in the US.

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  2. leeb says:
    January 29, 2006 at 8:25 am

    Libraries not a high priority
    To those in power, libraries are not a high priority. Other things are of a higher priority. You would see pubs and casinos go up before libraries get any help. This shows how irrelevant libraries have become, even though we all know how “important” they are.

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