Read this excerpt from a letter to the city council:Dear city council members:The city has proposed limiting library hours in order to save money. I understand that the city budget is being challenged at the moment, but no good will come of denying children access to the library after school. Children go to the library to learn and to get help with their homework. As a single parent, I rely on the library as an affordable place where I know my kids will be safe. Of all the programs to cut, the library should not be your first choice.What is the main idea of this letter?A.The city council has been irresponsible with its budget.B.There is a lack of quality options for childcare.C.Children should not have to visit the library to be safe.D.The city council should not cut the library hours.

Review the letter to the editor and then answer the question.I was dismayed on Friday when the Newberg City Council announced its intent to reduce library hours at all branches in an effort to cut costs. This reduction in services will negatively impact students in our community.I have worked at the downtown branch for more than a decade, and I've seen just how important the library is. Every day, dozens of students come to the library after school to do homework. For many students, there are no other safe, supervised spaces available during the afternoons. To protect this space, contact your city council representatives and speak out against reducing library hours!What is the text's main purpose?to encourage readers to support measures to extend library hoursto show the importance of libraries for teenagersto encourage readers to support current library hoursto encourage protests to keep libraries openSubmit

Select the correct answer.Read the following excerpt from Eleanor Roosevelt’s speech “What Libraries Mean to the Nation.”I know one place in the northern part of the state where I camped for a while in the summer, and I went to the school and talked to the teachers. They are using school books which have been passed down from one child to another. They have practically no books outside of the textbooks. The children in the district are so poor and some of them so pathetic that I suppose the struggle to live has been so great you could not think much about what you fed the mind, but I came away feeling that right there, in one of the biggest and richest states in the country, we had a big area that needed books and needed libraries to help these schools in the education of the children, and, even more, to help the whole community to learn to live through their minds.We are doing a tremendous amount through the home economics colleges to help people to learn how to live in their homes, to better their standards of material living. We have got to think in exactly the same way about helping them to live mentally and to attain better standards, and we can do it only through the children. We can do ground work with the children; we must begin with them; but we have got to do a tremendous amount with the older people.What is one central idea of Roosevelt’s writing? A. the need to prioritize learning over other material concerns B. the need for libraries in order to help improve people’s overall quality of life C. the need to educate parents and children about the value of books D. the need for efforts that are focused on teaching children to read

Should Parents or Other Adults Be Able to Ban Books from Schools and Libraries?

Which of the following is NOT a reason preventing public libraries from expanding along modern lines?Answer instructionsThey had no stability nor scope to growThey had meagre funds to meet the people’s information needsSubscriptions and public donations can provide viable services

Libraries play an incredibly important role in societies, in ways beyond simply providing access to books free of charge. They are a space for knowledge access and sharing, but also often play an important role in informal community education. ------- many libraries offer courses and trainings about computer use, which benefits their older and lower-income patrons. Which choice completes the text with the most logical transition?Nevertheless, eliminateFor example, eliminateMoreover, eliminateIn addition,