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摘要

This is the great danger of private individuals filling funding gaps in public services (Ian Chant, "Gates Foundation Exits Library Granting," News, LJ 6/15/14, p. 12ff.). The public thinks "they're rich-why shouldn't they provide services for us?" But the rich are under no obligation to do so. They get bored, they find other interests. They have no concept of what it means...to say librarians now have the tools to find other sources of funding. Libraries are a public good, and the public ought to be the source of funding for them.