Philadelphia Free Library System is shutting down

FTA: Picture an entire city, a modern, wealthy place, in the richest country in the world, in which the vital services provided by libraries are withdrawn due to political brinksmanship and an unwillingness to spare one banker's bonus worth of tax-dollars to sustain an entire region's connection with human culture and knowledge and community. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Kaizar Campwala - Sep 13, 2009 - 10:25 PM PDT
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