From the Melrose Free Press:
The Melrose Public Library appears unscathed on the surface, but after a $103,320 cut made to its Fiscal 2004 budget, the library faces drastic changes in the year ahead . . .
The cuts even threaten the Library\’s accreditation status and will soon affect the level of services offered to the public, said Dennis Kelley, Library director.
By 9 a.m., in a hot July sun, a line forms outside the doors of the library nearly every day with patrons waiting to get inside, unaware it now opens at 10 a.m. because of the budget cut. \”We put the word out that hours have changed, but I\’m not sure it\’s fully registered with the public yet,\” says Kelley.
Complete article. What\’s at stake here is state accreditation, not accreditation by ALA (which doesn\’t exist) as the article mistakenly reports.
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