Libraries Under Attack
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009
 It doesn’t matter where you live. Every budget of every department in your city is under attack. No budget is sacred. That includes libraries.
Yes, libraries. Those formerly sacred institutions whose budgets were considered untouchable.
One of my all time favorite remarks made by an elected official came during a library budget debate.
A rural Town Chairman and County Board Supervisor defended his constituents non-payments with …
“Nobody in my town should have to pay for a library, because nobody in my town reads!”
I don’t want to live in his town.
Do you?
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April 4th, 2009 at 6:06 am
It becomes a self-fulfilling statement. Funding cuts for the library mean shorter hours which means falling usage which then gets interpereted as falling demand which triggers lower funding levels which…
The local library is busy at all hours of the day here. Children’s programming, job searches and a de facto remote Job Service Center, and general public support. Economic uncertainty has forced the board to put the expansion on the back burner but the property has been purchased. It will happen.