The purpose of a library is to build community. A recent article in the Erie Daily-Times detailed how poverty rates in the City of Erie are increasing: Erie’s child poverty rate is the highest among PA’s 10 big cities. Why it’s increasing. Yet the county executive chose to lease 3200 square feet of space of our library to a private, religious, tax-exempt university: Gannon Tuition. This doesn’t serve the part of the community that needs it most.
“One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals.”
~Jean Vanier
Keep Our Library Public! 