LISNews: Librarian News

Paula McMillen passed along word that Washington State Governor Gary Locke is responding to a billion-dollar budget hole created by war and recession by expanded gambling and new sin taxes, and closing the Washington State Library.

Locke proposes eliminating 30 state programs, including state supplemental checks for federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) clients, closure of the state Library and three hatcheries, and mothballing the Mission Creek Youth Camp.

One Story, or Another has all the sad details.

\"Nancy Zussy, state librarian for the past 15 years, said her agency won\'t go away quietly. \"If this were to occur, we\'d be the only state in the country without a state library,\" said Zussy, who plans to take her case to the Legislature.\"