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America’s Public Libraries:
A Worthwhile InvestmentValerie Forrestal
COMM502 Capstone4/28/11
Audience: US Congress
he Library
s ead.
The Library.
Long live
(Last year libraries circulated more items [2.1 billion] than FedEx shipped.)
Library use is on the rise:
Nearly 90% of public library funding comes from local sources
Foreclosures & less home sales = lower property-tax revenues Local Revenue
89.89%
State Revenue5.06%
Federal Revenue0.34%
Other Funds (grants, fees & fines) 4.71%
In 2009, 4 million Americans were hired for jobs they applied for on library computers.
Someone uses
library resource
s to support
their small
business.
ibraries are among the most efficient of all
public services, serving more than
2/3 of the public with less than 2% of all
tax dollars.
or every $1 spent on the
library, acommunity sees an average of $4 in
return.
A 2010 study by the University of West Florida
found that:
F
Only 68.5% of Americans have home internet access.
In today’s information economy, access to the internet is vital, but...
Public libraries help bridge the digital divide.
”
“100 percent of our graduates are accepted to college... We
work with largely disadvantaged and at-risk youth, and they don’t have computers at home, so they come here to the library. They get support here. The librarians help them attain the online and print
materials they need.
The richest person in the world - in fact all the riches in the world - couldn't provide you with
anything like the endless, incredible loot available at your local library.
- Malcolm Forbes
When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that
American society has found one more way to destroy itself. - Isaac Asimov
here is not such a cradle of democracy upon
the earth as the Free Public Library... - Andrew Carnegie
Americans spend 2.5 times as much on salty snacks as they do on public libraries.
Aren’t libraries worth a bag of chips to you?
www.oclc.org/roi/
dlis.dos.state.fl.us/bld/roi/publications.cfm
Wolverton, T. (2010). U.S. broadband use climbs.
www.oclc.org/reports/pdfs/214109usf_how_libraries_stack_up.pdf
cis.washington.edu/usimpact/documents/OPP4ALL_FinalReport.pdf
ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/mediapresscenter/americaslibraries2011/index.cfm
www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/advocacy/advocacyuniversity/toolkit/talkingpoints/index.cfm
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