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The Straight Story (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 07:54 PM Original message |
Privatizing Public Libraries |
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ibegurpard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 07:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. why not? it's good enough for education |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 07:56 PM Original message |
Yep. And why would we ever consider free and open access to information a right |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 09:50 PM Response to Reply #1 |
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Liberal_in_LA (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 07:56 PM Response to Original message |
2. Oh no! |
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Blue Owl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 07:57 PM Response to Original message |
3. As soon as I found out there would be a George W. Bush Library on a college campus |
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howaboutme (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 08:00 PM Response to Original message |
4. Public Private partnerships are about corruption |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 08:07 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. In the article, the CEO of the company says they are a "family run business" |
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Kablooie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 09:49 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. So are Koch Industries. |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 08:08 PM Response to Original message |
6. Libraries are going to be museums. Sadly, E books are the future. |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-29-10 11:05 AM Response to Reply #6 |
13. No they won't. Libraries are about access to information not books. |
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L0oniX (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-29-10 05:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. So you don't think libraries will be online? Whatever. |
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LWolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 09:50 PM Response to Original message |
8. Schools, libraries, teachers, librarians, nurses.... |
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DonCoquixote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 10:28 PM Response to Original message |
10. OH god |
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SugarShack (979 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 11:50 PM Response to Original message |
11. This happened in Tampa, FL several years ago, and the communities fought them down! |
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HEyHEY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-28-10 11:54 PM Response to Original message |
12. Doesn't that just make it a bookstore? |
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Iris (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-29-10 02:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. good point |
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MajorChode (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-29-10 05:14 PM Response to Original message |
16. Public libraries are dying a slow death anyway |
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