Illinois Budget Crisis: Are Libraries Necessary, or a Waste of Tax Money?

[Sandy Eggo]

Chicago - They eat up millions of your hard earned tax dollars. It's money that could be used to keep your child's school running. So with the internet and e-books, do we really need millions for libraries?

http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/special_report/library-taxes-closed-20100628

Only a Faux affiliate would suggest something so incredibly stooooooooopid.

I love how a one-hour traffic sample justifies suggesting its a waste of money. Solid journalism there! Libraries are so much more than just a place that houses books. I can see their next article - "Now that we got them interwebs and that Wookiepedia we don't need no libraries nohow!"

[followsthewolf]

Chicka-boom, chicka-boom, don't 'cha just love it?

Ignorance and fanaticism are ravenous. They require constant feeding.

[me]

And that is local Fox not the cable Fox.  What are they thinking? 

[Anne]

I use the library a lot and I hate it that they cut the hours here. There is a lot of "foot traffic" most of the day. There are a lot of people who spend most of the day there.

[The Troll]

I use the library a lot and I hate it that they cut the hours here. There is a lot of "foot traffic" most of the day. There are a lot of people who spend most of the day there.

  We know what you are talking about.  My wife a high school grad and her boss who had been a Home Ec teacher ran our libary all week by themselves for 13 years.  With no problems.

  Well, Anderson Libary hired a new college guy, with a Libary Science Degree.  Who was coming up with all kinds of b.s. that didn't amount to a hill of beans.  My wife's boss told her that she was tired of all of his b.s. and she was going to quit.  So they both quit.   After over 26 years of combined service in a jobs they liked, until he became boss.

  After they quit, he hired 5 college people with Libary Science Degrees to take their place, starting them at $2 more an hour than they had been making.  What really made it good, none of them wanted to travel to our town to work.

  What was prove was that you don't have to have a college degree in Libary Science to hand out books and type up over do list.