Comment on Editorial: Why spend $50 million on the “last library?” by Dave Morgan
Submitted by on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 3:26pm
I have read Fahrenheit 451. It was required reading in high school. However, when Mr. Bradbury wrote that classic story he had no idea that something like the internet was even possible. Fahrenheit 451 led us all to believe that the written word on paper was paramount to the preservation of western civilization. Today it comes down to dispersed computer hard drives and other evolving recording devices that are being pioneered world-wide. And unlike the “book memorizers” in Bradbury’s work, information is progressing at an unimaginable rate that is not completely secure, but certainly existent in many locations.
I share your love of libraries. But their continued existence may, and I say MAY be in grave doubt. Sufficient doubt that any community should step back from the brink of spending tens of millions of dollars and then proceed to educate themselves as to their options. I am sure you are not opposed to education, and either am I along with most of humanity.
