{"id":6505,"date":"2010-07-05T14:14:33","date_gmt":"2010-07-05T14:14:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2010\/07\/do-we-need-libraries.html"},"modified":"2010-07-05T14:14:33","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T14:14:33","slug":"do-we-need-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2010\/07\/do-we-need-libraries.html","title":{"rendered":"Do We Need Libraries?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LibraryShot.jpg\"<\/a><\/span>I just came across this one<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n

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By Anna Davlantes, FOX Chicago News<\/p>\n

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Chicago – They eat up millions of your hard earned tax dollars. It’s money that could be used to keep your child’s school running. So with the internet and e-books, do we really need millions for libraries?<\/p>\n

Libraries are quiet havens for the community. They take us to other worlds. They even make us laugh. But should these institutions — that date back to 1900 B.C. — be on the way out?<\/p>\n

There are 799 public libraries in Illinois. And they’re busy. People borrow more than 88 million times a year.<\/p>\n

But keeping libraries running costs big money. In Chicago, the city pumps $120 million a year into them. In fact, a full 2.5 percent of our yearly property taxes go to fund them.<\/p>\n

That’s money that could go elsewhere – like for schools, the CTA, police or pensions<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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