Frazz by Jef Mallett for December 01, 2012
Transcript:
Boy: It's amnesty week at the city library. Frazz: They let you borrow that many books? Boy: Some are from the school library. And the county library and the district library. Frazz: You're not supposed to take them all to the library with the best deal. BoyL Let the free market decide, that's what I say.
thanks to budget cuts, public libraries have reduced hours, reduced staff, reduced the number of new releases, reduced and/or eliminated book discussions, reduced/eliminated literacy programs. we may have started a path where this generation will be less educated than the previous generation, all because it costs too much.