If you haven’t considered it yourself, see if you can work with the library on a publicity campaign. The library here offers “We [heart] our library” signs for people’s lawns. They get people into a city-wide book read every year and give out free copies of the book to whoever wants them. This year, it’s The Martian. See what services your library might offer like 3D printing or even just free xeroxing and faxing and see what you can do with informing local social media groups.
My wife is a public library administrator here in Indiana and I would be happy to talk to her about more ideas if you want them.
No problem, I am very happy to help promote libraries. I think they’re one of the country’s most vital resources even if lots of people don’t take advantage of them.
I thought that was cool so I read the wikipedia page you linked…and that’s not what he did.
Carnegie’s funds covered only the library buildings themselves, and Carnegie gave library buildings to cities on the condition that the cities stocked and maintained them
He built the buildings but required the cities to pay for the upkeep. We want it the other way around. The libraries already exist but someone has to pay to keep them running.
Without the ALA to fight for libraries, they will get shut down. That is the real reason behind this. Loss of advocacy.
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If you haven’t considered it yourself, see if you can work with the library on a publicity campaign. The library here offers “We [heart] our library” signs for people’s lawns. They get people into a city-wide book read every year and give out free copies of the book to whoever wants them. This year, it’s The Martian. See what services your library might offer like 3D printing or even just free xeroxing and faxing and see what you can do with informing local social media groups.
My wife is a public library administrator here in Indiana and I would be happy to talk to her about more ideas if you want them.
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No problem, I am very happy to help promote libraries. I think they’re one of the country’s most vital resources even if lots of people don’t take advantage of them.
Hey. Bill Gates. Fund all the libraries in the US at triple budget in perpetuity. It’s probably not even a rounding error for you.
That’s literally what Andrew Carnegie did over 100 years ago and is why so many small towns have libraries.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
Let’s give all children 3 meals a day, while we 're at it. In perpetuity.
Do the grown-ups too. The rich could afford it.
Let’s call the adult one “Universal Basic Income.” Or something like that
Damn you commies! /s 😂
I thought that was cool so I read the wikipedia page you linked…and that’s not what he did.
He built the buildings but required the cities to pay for the upkeep. We want it the other way around. The libraries already exist but someone has to pay to keep them running.
I realize it’s not the same thing exactly, but without Carnegie, many of those libraries wouldn’t have existed.
There are a lot of bad things you could say about Carnegie, but this is not one of them.