The return on your investment is not in immediate dollars and cents. It’s in people who find the stories or the knowledge that they need. It’s in people who are changed, helped, rescued or allowed to escape by fiction or by non-fiction. It’s in the children who will grow up to be different people, better people, because of books in your library. That’s the return on the investment. And I believe it’s worth it.
Hi Neil! I’m a librarian working on a mobile library project in the Philippines. We have the truck for the library and we’re planning out the routes and schedules, but already I could feel the doubts and fears nagging at me. There’s no return of investment when it comes to libraries (in a business sense), and I’m afraid of my project dying an early death. Am I just being paranoid? I’m sorry if this seems odd, I just wanted the opinion of someone who values reading and libraries as I do.
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