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My Not So Merry Correspondence with our Public Library; or, Virtue Unrewarded

January 22, 2018January 12, 2018 by Greg Evans

January 23, 2018 Dear Devoted Reader, For a number of years now I have been describing and protesting the intentional degradation of Pima County Public Library as a library (that is, a place that should first and foremost have a variety of books and magazines, as opposed to a place that has meeting rooms, “entrepreneurial …

Are Billionaire Foundations Dumbing Down Our Public Library?

September 26, 2016September 26, 2016 by Greg Evans

It all started innocently enough. I and some other members of the Tucson Chapter of the National Writers Union had been noticing that books which we’d been intending to or had already read — written by some very established international and “mid-list” literary authors — were disappearing from our public library’s shelves to, it seemed, …