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Libraries versus McDonalds

In a slapdown with McDonalds . . .

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There are more libraries in the US than there are McDonald’s.

Public Libraries – less calories, more fulfilling.

Stephen

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Posted on: December 1, 2011, 7:46 am Category: Uncategorized

By: stephen

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  1. Jill said
    on December 1, 2011 8:24 am

    Can we see the empirical evidence for this?

  2. Carrie said
    on December 1, 2011 10:27 am

    According to ALA there are a total of 16,604 public libraries including branches.(http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ola/quotablefacts/QuotableFacts2010.pdf)
    According to the McDonald’s web site there are over 13,000 McDonald’s restaurants in the US. (http://www.aboutmcdonalds.com/mcd/franchising/us_franchising/why_mcdonalds.html)

  4. Lola said
    on December 1, 2011 4:30 pm

    FEWER calories

  5. Nick said
    on December 1, 2011 4:46 pm

    Quick count shows 15 libraries (not counting public or private secondary schools) but only 10 Macs in Virgina Beach (pop.435,000).

  6. Joanne said
    on December 2, 2011 8:39 am

    And you can’t download a burger and fries to your smartphone.

  7. Jill said
    on December 2, 2011 8:45 am

    Thank you all for the evidence – I sit on my McD’s laden arse corrected.

    Love Lola’s comment by the way x

  8. admin said
    on December 2, 2011 9:57 am

    Here’s some more OCLC fun data sheets with libraries compared to Amazon and FedEx, etc.:

    How Libraries Stack Up 2003
    http://www.oclc.org/reports/2003libsstackup.htm
    How Libraries Stack up 2010
    http://www.tcplweb.org/for%20tcpl%20site.pdf

    Stephen