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Date registered: February 23, 2011

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  1. ALA Needs Our Help to Protect LSTA Funding — February 25, 2011
  2. Libraries are going the way of the smoker’s lounge–so says blog commentor at Binghamton Paper — February 24, 2011
  3. Irondequoit Public Library’s funding issues focus of article and blog — February 24, 2011

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  1. Irondequoit Public Library’s funding issues focus of article and blog — 222 comments
  2. Libraries are going the way of the smoker’s lounge–so says blog commentor at Binghamton Paper — 81 comments
  3. ALA Needs Our Help to Protect LSTA Funding — 2 comments

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Feb
25

ALA Needs Our Help to Protect LSTA Funding

Dear ALA Members, I am writing to you today to enlist your participation in an association-wide advocacy campaign to protect funding for the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) and the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program. Recently, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a Continuing Resolution (CR), H.R. 1, funding the remainder of Fiscal …

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Feb
24

Libraries are going the way of the smoker’s lounge–so says blog commentor at Binghamton Paper

The following comment, from Binghamton’s Press and Sun-Bulletin’s website, www.pressconnects.com, was written in response to the Gannett News Service article, Library funding eyed for cuts as facility use continues to soar, that ran in newspapers across the state on 2/18/11. LenJack, 11:03 AM on February 19, 2011 With the advent of the internet and all of the information …

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Feb
24

Irondequoit Public Library’s funding issues focus of article and blog

The Irondequoit Public Library is a municipal library whose funding has decreased substaintially the past few years. A recent article in the Rochester Democrat and Chronicle gave a very good overview of what the library’s challenges are and why they are considering becoming a special legislative district public library. But, blog responses such as this …

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