Keeping Libraries Public

[phantom power]

Several cities in Ventura County have already privatized their libraries, and at least two others are considering doing so. Library privatization is a quiet scourge that is happening under the radar of a national-issues-obsessed public. Citizens need to find out if this sort of thing is happening in their own backyards, and agitate against it if need be.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/keeping-libraries-public-by-david.html

[LWolf]

1. We need to abolish privatization of public services once and for all.

Privatizing libraries? That's a direct attack on intellectual freedom.

In my opinion.

[Poll_Blind]

5. I agree about privatizing libraries. You're absolutely right. nt

PB

[Earth_First]

2. Gee, and you thought the list of banned literature was excessive now... n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

3. This was a foreegone eventuality, the day the libraries and librarians

stood up en masse against the Patriot Act.

Privatize the libraries and the goverments/corporations will know every visitor's reading habits. Pick out the troublemakers before they make trouble - like in 5th grade or so.

[zbdent]

4. isn't it amazing how the Private Sector wants to make so many things "private"?

I mean, after all the public $$$ setting up the infrastructure to do so ... I remember the cable industry was angry at the idea of other "providers" using the "poles and cables they put in place" ...