$39.5 Million Hi-Tech Library Opens In Illinois

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday March 8, 2011 @08:33AM from the not-your-mother's-library dept.

The new $39.5 million Fountaindale Public Library features: flat-screen TVs, video games, self-checkout stations, a variety of e-readers, and a cafe. Library officials say the new facility is a blueprint for libraries of the future, and will focus on using new technologies. From the article: "The Fountaindale Public Library, with its state-of-the-art, Wi-Fi equipped space, is starkly different from the previous antiquated library, a nearby one-story brick structure built in 1975 that awaits the wrecking ball. Officials are hopeful the new facility attracts a demographic libraries haven't seen in a number of years — young professionals."

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Re:Deficit == 50% of operating budget by commodore6502 · 2011-03-08 08:59 · Score: -1, Offtopic

>>>Illinois is broke dot com
"The state is not broke. The country is not broke. There is plenty of money being hoarded by the rich* people. All we have to do is take it from them." - Van Jones, white house adviser.
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* where rich == $125,000 annual income ($250k for married persons)

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Information wants to be expensive AND wants to be free. So you have Value vs. Cheap distribution fighting each other.