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A comment on The Buffalo Public Library in 1983 (1883).

Re:The Buffalo Public Library in 1983 (1883) by interfixus on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @12:53AM (#20925132)
> We have not yet escaped the preponderant use of fiction though we have diminished it since your day. It used to be 75 per cent. Thanks to our training the school children in good ways it has fallen to forty

The dreams of yore...

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Re:The Buffalo Public Library in 1983 (1883) by whaddawhat on Tuesday September 10, 2019 @04:45AM (#20926234)
Amazing. And what will people think of our targets for literacy, numeracy, etc in a century or two?
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