Head Tale

…you volunteered to write a government brief about the value of libraries in your province.  What would you include?  What approach would you take? 

In this hypothetical example, let's say the sucker volunteer already has a draft with some statistics and facts relevant to libraries, both in general (the one from the 2004 Florida study that found libraries returned $6.50 for every dollar invested) and specific to what's happening in the province (er, things like this.) 

Anybody have any kick ass ideas, facts or stats, especially from their days back at FIMS that they'd love to use more than just for that one paper that the prof read during the commercials of “Desperate Housewives” and gave you a B+ on? 

(I feel like I'm back at FIMS working on this and can't decide if that's a good or a bad thing!)