Quote:
Originally Posted by PaperBagger'14
Every book you've ever wanted to read is available for free on the internet. Every single one, they've all been transcribed. If you're having trouble finding one I can have you a copy in under an hour.
I don't want this city getting bent over like Edmonton did, however we have squandered money away on far more useless things like libraries.
For some quick math the saddledome seats ~20k. Calgary has a population of ~1 mil. So on any given sell out game we have 2% of the population of the city in the dome. Now let's multiply that by 41 home games. So 820 000 people attend a flames game assuming sell outs. Let's knock that down to 750 000 because not every night is a sell out. I just want to iterate that this is napkin math and speculation and is part of my reasoning. If there's stats to dispute it is gladly change my stance.
Do you think 750 000 people are using that damn library a year? 500 000? 25 000? I don't have access to the info to base my stance off of, however I doubt there's ~2000 people effectively using that library per day.
|
It is the second most used library system in the country. It has one of the lowest per capita funding in Canada. There was 6.2 million visits in 2015. In that same year, Calgarians attended 14,655 programs and borrowed 16 million items. 66% of the City of Calgary have a library card.
If you're so good at 'finding' books online, one would think you could find this information just as easily.