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- From: pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai)
- Subject: Re: help for california libraries! Dire need!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.001615.12957@adobe.com>
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- References: <1992Jul13.143637.3636@unocal.com> <1992Jul19.081048.7791@adobe.com> <8092.8729@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM>
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 00:16:15 GMT
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- In article <8092.8729@stratus.SWDC.Stratus.COM> lpb@florida.swdc.stratus.com writes:
- >In article <1992Jul19.081048.7791@adobe.com> pngai@adobe.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
- >>Personally, I'd like to see public libraries shut down so there could
- >>be a market for private libraries. Perhaps we'd see some libraries
- >>with reasonable hours like the bookstores which stay open til midnight.
- >>Libraries which are more than babysitting areas for loud children.
- >>Libraries with a good selection of books. I usually head for the
- >>bookstore when I need a book. Libraries with copy machines that work.
- >
- >Oh that's a real good idea. Then they can charge admission,
- >perhaps we might even have gvt-controlled/owned libraries. That
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- The way you leap from private libraries to government controlled
- libraries is hard to follow. What do you think the current public
- library system is if not government controlled?
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- My opinions are my own.
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