"Check it out; As the economy sags, library use is booming. But will the services people want survive the budget cuts towns fear?" by Keith O'Brien, Globe Staff | January 4, 2009
.... In the fast-paced, instant message, Internet era, public libraries have often struggled for attention from patrons. But with the economy sputtering, unemployment rising, and no relief in sight, Massachusetts libraries, long the victim of budget cuts, are busier than ever before, said Robert Maier, director of the state Board of Library Commissioners.
Attendance is surging. Check-out rates are soaring. At some libraries, circulation - the number of items checked out in a given month - is up as much as 33 percent since last summer. And for the unemployed, libraries have become something like an office, with computers, Internet access, and even classes that teach how to write a resume and peddle it online. In a tough time, it seems, people are returning to a place where whispering trumps shouting and no credit card is necessary. At the library, just about everything is free....
Well, except that TAXPAYERS PAY FOR IT ALL!! Hey, what's one more lie and deception from the Boston Globe here; the paper is full of them everyday.
Of course, the elitist at the BG THINK it is FREE MONEY because that is the way they treat taxpayer dollars -- as if they are THEIRS and not OURS!
The trend, playing out nationwide, has librarians celebrating, but worrying, too. The same financial crisis squeezing pocketbooks, pushing people to borrow - not buy - books and DVDs, is gutting state and local budgets as well. And so at a time when demand for library services is growing, libraries themselves, which rely on state and local aid, could be facing cuts in 2009....
Historically, nothing boosts the profile of a public library like a nice, dreadful recession, and this one is shaping up as a doozy....A "nice" recession?
They almost sound HAPPY ABOUT IT -- and I'm sure the elite agenda-pushers of AmeriKa's MSM ARE HAPPY about the impoverishment of America.
After all, they work for ZIONIST INTERESTS, not American ones.
Don't believe me? Pick up an AmeriKan War Daily sometime.
Deb Hoadley, the Boston Public Library director:
"We are air conditioned. We have heat. So people who may not have those things, we're available to them."
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