<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="font-size: 33px;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; letter-spacing: 0.125px; font-size: 31px;" class="">At 17,566, <a href="http://www.ala.org/aboutala/sites/ala.org.aboutala/files/content/quotable%20facts.2017.downloadable.pdf" target="_blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 107, 61) !important;" class="">there are more public libraries </a>in the United States than there are Starbucks coffee shops. And just like at Starbucks, patrons have access to free wi-fi. But unlike Starbucks, public libraries will usually provide the free use of a computer as well as internet access.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; color: rgb(60, 55, 54); font-family: 'Open Sans'; letter-spacing: 0.125px; font-size: 31px;" class="">Perhaps it is their very ubiquitousness that makes them such a tempting target for <a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/4/3/1508248/-How-much-is-a-library-worth" target="_blank" title="" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration: none; color: rgb(153, 107, 61) !important;" class="">libertarians like the Koch brothers</a> and right -wing economists like the one who recently suggested a takeover of libraries’ functions by Amazon…</p><div class=""><br class=""></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><a href="https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/29/1783617/-The-creeping-privatization-of-public-libraries?detail=emailLL" class="">https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/7/29/1783617/-The-creeping-privatization-of-public-libraries?detail=emailLL</a></div></body></html>