A new campaign, Invest in Libraries, puts forth that in the past 10 years, the city government has reduced funding for public libraries by nearly 20 percent and 1,000 workers or so have been trimmed from the payroll. The campaign calls on the city to increase its support in various ways, such as restoring $65 million in operating funds.
The New York Times reports that "the city's three public library systems — the New York Public Library, the Brooklyn Public Library and the Queens Library — are seeking $1.4 billion in city funds over the next decade to bring all 217 public library branches up to modern building standards."
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There just hang outs for the homeless and thugs.
ReplyDeleteActually, electronic media fails, printed books do not.
ReplyDeleteWe should always have printed books
Imagine if the only copy of the constitution was on a hard drive that failed and was unrecoverable.
Think people.
9:18 thugs do not go to the library, and who cares if the homeless go there to get warm and read. It is a public building.
All inhabited buildings SHOULD be maintained or torn down..
ReplyDeleteReally?? thugs hanging at the library??
ReplyDeleteWhat we don't need is Presidential Library's! A huge waste of money!
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