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November 11, 2007

Outsourcing hits public libraries

Over at On the Commons, David Bollier has a short provocative blog on outsourcing of public libraries. Excerpt:

This should not be entirely surprising, given how jails, highways and even military operations are being privatized these days. Yet it does raise the distressing question -- If libraries are vulnerable, where will this momentum for dismantling our civic institutions end?

Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at November 11, 2007 07:29 AM


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