ARE ALL LIBRARIES HEADED THIS WAY?

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists. ~Archibald MacLeish

The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library. ~Lesley Conger

Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ~Lady Bird Johnson

As a child, my number one best friend was the librarian in my grade school. I actually believed all those books belonged to her. ~Erma Bombeck

To those with ears to hear, libraries are really very noisy places. On their shelves we hear the captured voices of the centuries-old conversation that makes up our civilization. ~Timothy Healy

The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library. ~Malcolm Forbes

We all know California is a state in debt. Likely, the other 49 are as well, we just hear more about California. States are in financial trouble, cities are in financial trouble. This article is about an unfortunate task the city of Oakland has had to take on. How many other cities have done similarly, or will be forced to?

An unfortunate direction to go.


Dan