Public Libraries Endangered --

[GoodWitch58]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/16/can-the-american-library-_n_1096484.html?ncid=webmail15

According to the most recent Public Library Funding and Technology Access Study (PLFTAS), libraries and librarians provide essential services that are found scarcely anywhere else, especially to citizens who are struggling economically. Seventy percent of libraries indicated that their Internet services increased in 2010, and 65 percent report that they provide the only source of free public access to computers in their community. Eighty-one percent of Americans who have been "economically impacted" by the recession have a library card today, as supposed to 68 percent of Americans who have not been affected, according to a 2010 study from the Online Computer Library Center.

Anyone want to step up to restore our libraries? especially Saturday hours for Walton County libraries? I think it is a shortsighted decision on the County's part to close the library to those people who work Monday - Friday and now can not go to the Coastal Branch library.