Commons-Spencer

1.) Libraries serve a great purpose in our world today. Not as great as they did 50 years ago, but still significant. I personally feel that the internet greatly takes up the task that libraries were originally charged with doing. However, it is important to have a bastion of learning and free information in every community. When people have a meeting place that is free and devoid of corporate influence, that is when democracy can flourish completely.

2.) Siva writes that libraries are being taken over by "anarchists" in every way. This seems to be true in a world full of restrictive copyrights and overactive corporate restrictions. I, like many of my class mates don't fully agree with all of Siva's views, but I would not want my children stumbling across something I wouldn't want them to see. However, I fully believe that this responsibility is that of the parents, not societie's as a whole.