ABSTRACT
I’m not sure if this is a question or an avid pronouncement, but I’ll make it. I’m the Director of the Urbana Free Library. My academic library is the University of Illinois, which [makes it] very nice to run a public library a mile away from seven million books. It simplifies the procedures, but there are some things we can’t get from them. Once in a while we have something they need which is what I want to talk about, because we’ve only touched briefly on public libraries and their place in CCD arrangements. One thing, obviously, several people have touched upon is local history. I think, this is the one area that, actually, collections do exist.
