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Nowhere is it written that a public library must be publicly funded. Thousands of libraries across America have been founded and funded with private donations
by MichaelCollins 4y ago
Nowhere is it written that a public library must be publicly funded. Thousands of libraries across America have been founded and funded with private donations. Andrew Carnegie alone funded the construction of 2509 public libraries around the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnegie_library
37% of the town wants the library funded, and I think out-of-town donations could be solicited too, donors probably wouldn't be too hard to find considering this controversy seems to have become international news.
- Defletter 4y ago> Nowhere is it written that a public library must be publicly funded Uuuuh, I mean, I could understand you saying that a /library/ doesn't need to be publicly funded, but a /public library/, being publicly funded is kind of its whole deal.
- MichaelCollins 4y agoYou're mistaken; a public library is a library that is open to the general public. They are often publicly funded as well, but not necessarily so. Some public libraries are privately funded, and some private libraries are publicly funded (e.g. university libraries closed to the general public, at schools that receive public funding) The 'public' in public library refers to who the library is open to, not how the library is funded.
- xbar 4y agoWell said. A library endowment is, for example, a thing.
- koheripbal 4y agoGiven the access to information now available on the internet - the underlying societal value of libraries is greatly diminished.