Tried to leave a message on the blog, but ended up with a missed mussed mess of circuitious passwords. I forwarded this to a number of people; there are crises, plural, with libraries here - Queens County for example, which apparently was voted the best library system in the US by the American Library Association, has had to stop buying books altogether because they've run out of money. Arts, libraries, etc. aren't supported in the US for the most part; you either make a lot of money in the market, or collapse, or somehow persevere. Libraries are open less and less - our local one isn't open on the weekends at all for example, which is a huge loss to the community. In some places, the homeless use them for shelter and bathroom - there aren't many places for them to go - and more traditional users stay away. A lot of libraries ironically are becoming nothing more than computer centers for people who need access and have no other way of getting it. That's all to the good, but the books again suffer as a result. And then libraries are just closing, period; in Aurora Colorado, for example (where Azure's parents live), a number of branches have shut down.
You mention Murdoch; given his destruction here and elsewhere, I think he might be the most dangerous man around. - Alan == email archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ webpage http://www.alansondheim.org music archive: http://www.espdisk.com/alansondheim/ current text http://www.alansondheim.org/qw.txt == _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
