It is a numbers game.
Maybe 60% of people read enough to sometimes visit the library and
make use of it. Of these maybe 15% would be avid users. The other 40 per
cent number can go up and down slightly but through the decades probably 40%
has been about usual.
If the civilization and culture is progressing as it should, or
improving slightly each decade then the 40% number should decrease, and in
the 1950s and 1960s it was generally thought the 40% was shortly going to
zero, though as Vicky implies, it has been likely on the increase the past
30 years.
People involved in the school system -our Minneapolis School system-
should think seriously about this and ask what major issues are we -they-
wrong on.
This is another of the issue groups that can be a discussion of
statewide or nationwide significance, though it certainly is applicable -as
I am talking here about- in Minneapolis.
It surely is worth it to have the library, if only for the 60%. It
is again like baseball, if only 60% are interested and want to go to the
game, are the other 40% within their rights to -like with the library- stand
up and oppose there being a baseball park or a library?
James Jacobsen // Whittier
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