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Public libraries: the recession barometer?

January 25, 2009 by Ryan Slifka

One of the few institutions that thrive in recession times is the public library. Understandably, public library use goes up when people can’t afford to buy books, or have a lot of spare time on their hands thanks to being laid off (or both).
In Calgary, the land of the boom, the public library system had [...]

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