The Library Business: Win-Win

Traditionally, libraries get busy when the economy stumbles. People start looking for bargains when wallets start getting lighter, and the users of the Chippewa Falls Public Library know that we pack a lot of punch for a great price.

If you do the math, the average resident of Chippewa County pays about $15.00 per year for library service. With that $15.00, he or she gets:

>Internet access
>The newest fiction and non-fiction
>CDs and DVDs
>Civil service information
>Access to educational and enriching children's literature (and toys)
>New and back issues of popular magazines
>Access to the books held in just about any library collection in Wisconsin
>Public programs, such as Summer Reading Club and author visits

I challenge you to find dinner and a movie for one NIGHT for less than $15.00 anywhere these days.

Once again, if you do the math, a weekly user of the library can get hundreds and thousands of dollars worth of education and entertainment back on his $15.00-$20.00 tax investment. Economically, the State of Wisconsin gets about $4.00 back for every one dollar she spends on libraries, according to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction.

Makes sense to me. I hope you'll think about it now and then...

Support your library, and then USE it. You can't beat the deal.