American's spend ten times as much on home video games ($1.5 billion) as they do on school library materials for their children.
A recent Colorado study found the highest achieving students come from schools with good library media centers.
Students visit school library media centers 1.7 billion times during the school year-about twice the visits to state and national parks.
A quarter of all schools have no school librarian.
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