Are Libraries Necessary . . .

Are Libraries Necessary, or a Waste of Tax Money?
Fox News Chicago: June 28, 2010 by Anna Daylantes

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?

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But should these institutions -- that date back to 1900 B.C. -- be on the way out?

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But keeping libraries running costs big money.
In Chicago, the city pumps $120 million a year into them.
In fact, a full 2.5 percent of our yearly property taxes go to fund them.

That's money that could go elsewhere – like for schools, the CTA, police or pensions [sic]

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So we decided to check it out. We used an undercover camera to see how many people used the library and what were they doing.

In an hour, we counted about 300 visitors. Most of them were using the free internet.

The bookshelves? Not so much. READ MORE !