Our Libraries

Americans like the library, but will they pay for it?

Almost everybody will tell you they love the library. And if you press them, most adults will go on to relate some fond memory of their childhood library. But will these good feelings translate into a willingness to support the library with tax dollars? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a grant to the Online Computer Library Center to research just this question. Results were released several months ago (www.oclc.org/reports/funding) and the answer turned out to be both complicated a... More

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Sarah Long's weekly column, Our Libraries, is published in the Chicago Daily Herald. The Herald is Chicagoland's third largest daily newspaper, with a circulation of approximately 128,000.

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