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"Public officials will tell you they love libraries and are committed to them; they just don't believe they constitute a 'core' service ... Sooner or later, we'll all feel the loss as one of the most effective levelers of privilege and avenues of reinvention--one of the great engines of democracy--begins to disappear."

--7/6/10

Sources: AP; CNN; U.K. Mirror; CNN; U.K. Mirror; AP; BBC

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