Last week, Denny Farrell (D-Manhattan) took to the floor of the Assembly to talk about the budget. In a rather off-handed remark, he dissed libraries. “Libraries, we really don’t need them anymore maybe.” Click here to view the video. The fact of the matter is we will always need libraries–especially in this economy. Let Assembly …
New York Library Association (NYLA)
Mar
03
State Budget Is Really Trashing Our Libraries
NYLA’s ED Mike Borges and the Chair of the Assembly Committee on Libraries, Bob Reilly, were guests on Capitol Pressroom today with Susan Arbetter. click the play button and after introductions move scroll bar on Track #1 to 35 minute mark. They’re pretty clear on how the present state budget and the budgets for the …
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 …