Elementary schools are the basic gardens for growing minds, and, inevitably, they’re where most people learn to take their first steps into the world of books and reading. Unfortunately for many students in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD), the second largest district in the nation, libraries have been closing recently. Worse yet, there is no date set for the re-opening of many of these facilities. It’s hard to imagine a school without a library, but the reality is that the district simply doesn’t have sufficient funds to hire librarians and library aides for its facilities. [Read more…]
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Sharon Furgason is the director of the McCowan Memorial Library, and it has been a stable fixture on Pitman Avenue since the early 1960s. However, since the economic downturn in 2008, Furgason has had to watch the public funding for her library dwindle, in tandem with the library funding law in the state, which links support to the average property values in the community. [Read more…]
Massachusetts school officials restore librarian positions
Swampscott High School and Swampscott Middle School is not going to be without great librarians through at least 2015.
The proposed school budget for 2014-15 is expected to include ample funding for librarians.
The funding will further propose adequate spending for library support positions at those libraries, the Interim Superintendent said this month. [Read more…]
New York mayoral candidates weigh in on role of libraries
Recently, the certified nonprofit Urban Libraries Unite polled New York City mayoral candidates on the role of libraries in New York City. At present, New York City’s three metropolitan library systems — Brooklyn, Queens and New York — are facing a total of $106.7 million in cuts in the current proposed budget, in addition to past cuts to library budgets. While the mayoral candidates who reponded to Urban Libraries Unite’s survey all shared positive views of libraries, they were short on concrete answers as to how they would support New York’s libraries if elected mayor. [Read more…]
Protesters demand less spending on ebooks at Rockford Public Library
We’ve found out over the years that one way to make a bunch of people angry is to take away their library. Another way to make them almost equally upset is to change their library and make it focus on ebooks. [Read more…]
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