{"id":315,"date":"2006-06-22T16:05:33","date_gmt":"2006-06-22T16:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=315"},"modified":"2006-06-22T16:05:33","modified_gmt":"2006-06-22T16:05:33","slug":"use-it-or-lose-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/?p=315","title":{"rendered":"Use it or lose it&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/magazine\/5105580.stm\">Public libraries are on the verge of extinction warn campaigners<\/a>. How can they be protected for the future?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be honest &#8211; when did you last use your local library? Do you even know where it is?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>We use our library at least weekly. There is no excuse not to, since:<\/p>\n<p>We can rent CDs and DVDs from the library much cheaper than other places.<\/p>\n<p>They may have a poor stock, but one can order <strong>ANY BOOK YOU LIKE<\/strong> and it will be brought to your local library. It takes one minute to fill in a form. Same for CDs and DVDs.<br \/>\nWe can check stock and renew items online.<\/p>\n<p>They hold a wealth of local information, both historical and about upcoming events.<\/p>\n<p>They give classes in many things for kids and adults. There are kids story-telling sessions too.<\/p>\n<p>They have computers with free internet access.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>What more do you want!?!?!???<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Knowledge is sustenance, and here is a font to sup at for free. Fill thy cups, my friends!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public libraries are on the verge of extinction warn campaigners. How can they be protected for the future? Be honest &#8211; when did you last use your local library? Do you even know where it is? [&#8230;] We use our library at least weekly. There is no excuse not to, since: We can rent CDs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,30,21,24],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/irdial.com\/blogdial\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}