[Publib] Re: Wall Street Journal Weighs In on Public Libraries

[KM Denny]

I posted the Wall Street Journal article because that is a major organ where 
policy debates take place, and it's new that the WSJ publishes a major 
opinion piece that deals with public librarties. It is worth thinking about 
the author's twist on a library trend to emulate mass market bookstores 
because it is likely to reappear in funding debates, and to answer it we 
will have to dig deeper into what public libraries represent. I like those 
bookstore displays, but also think that a library empty of Hemingway, the 
Brontes, and Zola is missing the boat. In fact, one thing I love about my 
own book group is that we read Cormac McCarthy, Updike, Robinson.and Nafisi, 
but also Flaubert and Euripedes. The discussions are full of meat and I can 
nearly always find books at the library.

I apologize for pasting the entire text of that article in my posting. Only 
after seeing it reproduced over and over did I think it might have been 
better to provide the link.

KMD

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