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I do not want nor think it appropriate, for you to use the email roster of
SARES for your opinions that have nothing to do with ham radio. It is your
loss that you do not frequent a library.

Karen Hopkins
KD6FQF

P.. Stewart wrote: 

Sunnyvale Library of the Future?

   We recently received a slick brochure touting the wonder of a new
Sunnyvale library.  What is not acknowledged is that in the last 10 or 12
years, much of the function of a library has been supplanted by the World
Wide Web.  I find myself frequently researching a subject or historical
fact, but have not been to the library in several years.

If this reality were faced and much of the current library research material
were replaced by an expanded patron internet access, would this not leave
plenty of extra space in the current facility for novels and items not well
served by the internet?  

   Further, although touted as 'just $108 million', truthful disclosure
would reveal that with interest over 30 years, this amounts to between $270
and $300 million! 

Reality is that a "Library of the Future" is not a new brick and mortar
shrine, but facing reality in adapting and making use of the technology that
Sunnyvale and the rest of the valley in internationally famous for, for a
whole lot less than $300 million dollars of tax burden for we and our
children.

Phil Stewart K6PHL

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