Are Libraries "Non-Essential"?

Huffington Post Series: Libraries in Crisis

Andrew Losowsky: Why It's Time to Speak Up For Our Libraries

Chippewa Falls and many surrounding areas are lucky thus far; libraries have not become the budgetary whipping-boys in Wisconsin that they are in other places. But library users here would do well to keep an eye on things and be willing to speak up for them.

Our founding fathers would want it that way.

"A library book is not an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men setting out in life, it is their only capital."-— Thomas JEFFERSON

"If you described a city to me complete with warm prevailing winds, painted mansions, tennis courts, swmimming pools, beaches, theaters, and public gardens of great beauty, I would ask: 'Is there a good library?' If the answer were 'No,' I would regard your city as a hell unfit for living."--A. Weiss Mann