Comments on: What’s happening to public libraries in the face of new technology and budget cutbacks? http://spittalstreet.com/?p=2102 Genealogy and History and just about everthing else Sun, 29 Mar 2015 08:49:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.1 By: LInda Gartz http://spittalstreet.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-303 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 23:18:42 +0000 http://spittalstreet.com/?p=2102#comment-303 My town, home to Northwestern University, has a main library and two branches — one on the south side and one on the north side of town. The branches have been on the chopping block for a while — but locals raised money to keep them open. The branches have eliminated Fridays for at least 10 years. Thursdays closed for the past two. Local community centers that pay for themselves with fees for classes are on the chopping block. Our main library seems pretty safe at the moment — but big cuts are coming. We also have some of the highest property taxes in the whole Chicagoland area. These folks who played with money so loosely have really wreaked havoc on the most vulnerable in society. I can buy a book and own a computer. Many can’t and don’t. But the town has a huge deficit (also did not properly fund police and fire fighters’ pensions for decades!!!) and how we can all pay.
Sad.

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By: Joe K http://spittalstreet.com/?p=2102&cpage=1#comment-302 Mon, 27 Jun 2011 19:59:41 +0000 http://spittalstreet.com/?p=2102#comment-302 Public libraries are way down on the list of priorities. If only for some of the services people need, like access to computers for job search, they should be kept open. I recently asked someone to hand a resume to the Human Resources department of a large company, only to be informed that I needed to send it electronically.

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