Friday, January 13, 2017

Why I am not feeling optimistic, in two quotes.

Kurt Vonnegut

“And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.”


― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

TOP STORYDouglas County libraries slated to close April 1 Ten branches with the Douglas County Library system will close on April 1 this year.

The branch closures are part of an overall plan to ramp down library services by the end of the fiscal year in June.
The 10 closures include branches in Canyonville, Drain, Glendale, Myrtle Creek, Oakland, Reedsport, Riddle, Sutherlin, Winston and Yoncalla. The main library in Roseburg will have a tentative closure date of May 30...
...voters turned down a taxing district in November that would have kept the library afloat, the county has been struggling to find a means of funding it.




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  1. mJanuary 14, 2017 at 10:49 PM

    I had a crazy idea for funding libraries:

    Most libraries have a lot of computers available for public use. But during the evenings and such, they're idle. Why not use them as machines in a supercomputer? Think of the available computing power if you connect every idle library computer America! We could give libraries grants to keep the computers up and working. The computing power could be used for federal projects, or the government could charge researchers to use the network.

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