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A call for a National Digital Library Endowment

Posted on February 7, 2014February 8, 2014 by Michael Sauers

I believe my fellow Nebraskan Warren Buffett could find the resources for David Rothman’s modest proposal: Andrew Carnegie was a social Darwinian. He wanted to…

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Library refuses donation from atheist “hate group”

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Michael Sauers

But when Mehta asked his readers to pitch in to make up the difference and they rallied their support, Park District officials flatly refused the check,…

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The Tea Party vs. The Public Library

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Michael Sauers

It is both instructive and revealing that the Tea Party would challenge so energetically such a hallowed institution as the public library.  One hundred eighty…

Libraries

Amazon’s book city #1, Alexandria, VA, may cut library hours: Time for a digital-era national endowment to help ease U.S. libraries’ financial woes?

Posted on April 29, 2013 by Michael Sauers

Worse, Alexandria City Manager Rashad Young has proposed a $93,454 cut in the library personnel budget despite the harm this could do to working people reliant on libraries to advance themselves through…

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