Posted on 05/02/2015 7:43:02 AM PDT by PROCON
Hi everybody. I’m speaking with you from the DC Public Library in Anacostia, where I just met with a group of promising middle school students.
We spent some time talking about their lives, and how we all care about their success — and how that starts with a good education. So one thing I announced here in Anacostia is a new project by libraries and major publishers to provide more than $250 million in free e-Books for low-income students.
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I think he's slipping, though. I counted only about 5 references to himself.
He probably needs to get out to the golf course.
Its not hard to get a library card and they’re free.
What’s his angle?
What’s a Lie-Barry?
“Its not hard to get a library card and they’re free.
What’s his angle?”
Didn’t you know that womyn and minorities are incapable of doing even the simplest things that white males can and do effortlessly?
Bottom line: more wealth redistribution.
He is so dense.
I guess that the more solid cards can be used to help separate the seeds and stems (does modern=day pot still have all the stems and seeds?) and the softer ones can be rolled up to be used to do some "tooting"...
Every President should have a valid BC.
"a new project by libraries and major publishers to provide more than $250 million in free e-Books for low-income students"
I'll wager these "free e-books" are carefully selected, and rife with liberal-left propaganda.
If you like your library card you can keep it.
For people who haven’t been in a public library for years, the books have largely been sold off for 50 cents apiece, today they are primarily for using computers and checking out DVDs, and more community stuff.
It was cool when the Fonz said it. Zero manages to make everything lame.
I don’t know about that.
I go into libraries around here and there are PLENTY of books to be had. Yes, there are computers now, but the books are certainly not being sold off.
I suppose that if Obama wants kids to check out books from the library or read them on a Kindle or iPad, that’s okay.
The question is...do they know HOW to READ?
I don’t know where you are from, but, as I go to the library at least 5 days a week, I know that we have quite a large collection in my building that circulates regularly. We do sell off old beat up books, most donations (as we usually have plenty of copies of those books already, $1.00 each, and the money goes to buy more books).
We do have a regular crowd of folks who come in and use the computers, 1/3 business folks, 1/3 students, 1/3 facebook (guess who are the rudest users).
We do community outreach to push the library, and, have to support state programs, mainly healthcare and foodstamps, by helping folks get to the websites (only).
In our system, the first card is free, after that is $2.00. 99% of our customers are pretty good about using, returning, and supporting the library. The rest we get rid of quick (we have a large banned list).
At least here in the Deep South the Library is a valuable community asset that is supported and protected by all.
Now if I can only get them to hurry up and tear down my building and build a new one before I retire. I have been working in this building off and on since 1979 when it opened. I know all the flaws and it’s time to go.
What about a Voter ID ?
So NOW he’s in favor of IDs?
The "white privilege" of "reading" should extend to those that could be SOBs and DOBs?
Ergo, the increasingly anti-American library associations should get increased taxpayer provided subsidies.
I don’t know where you guys live, but I can speak for San Diego.
As far as book sales, here it ins’t just old, worn out books, for years they have been selling off perfect history books and biographies and non-fiction.
The replacement libraries, are always less library like, than the building they replace.
“Pew’s research shows that while many patrons still want to use libraries to borrow books, they’re also increasingly thinking of them as a community space that enables access to technology and a source of digital literacy for all different demographics.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/07/the-digital-age-is-forcing-libraries-to-change-heres-what-that-looks-like/
“These priorities all reinforce the changing aspects of the publishing industry as well as the needs of library patrons. Once, librarians were the caretakers of books and advisors library visitors. Now their day-to-day and moment-to-moment responsibilities have dramatically shifted. Librarians in this digital age provide access, guidance and training to both physical and electronic materials housed onsite, and in online archives while remaining on the leading-edge of the vast digital databases available.
In many cases, librarians have become teachers educating library visitors about how to use digital library services and many libraries have become hubs for technology training offering free or low-cost training across a variety of mediums. But today’s librarian is more than a steward of books, videos, and digital archives; they are also key partners in community and public relations. Many organize and host community events, network with other library and database systems encouraging interaction to increase the quality of materials available for their patrons.”
http://www.teachthought.com/featured/changing-landscape-libraries-librarians-digital-age/
“January 2002
How and Why Libraries are Changing: What We
Know and What We Need to Know”
http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1064&context=lib_science
What good is a card to a kid who can’t read?
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