Public Library Funding Updates

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Budget cuts are affecting public libraries all over the country.

Maryland: Summer reading is the latest budget-cutback victim

New Jersey: Public library board readies for municipal budget cuts

New York: Budget cuts forces Queens Library to shutter 14 branches, cut 300 workers and reduce hours

California: L.A. book lovers to protest city library budget cuts

California: Siskiyou County could close libraries

Illinois: Illinois Cooperatives Suffering Massive Service Cuts, Dozens of Lay-Offs

Responses in support of funding public libraries

Op-Ed from Los Angeles Times by Marilyn Johnson U.S. public libraries: We lose them at our peril

A response to the New York City public library funding crisis from author T.J. Stiles Rescuing the Stacks