News Out Of Pennsylvania, where libraries have not received any funds this year, and now they may face a 50-percent funding cut. They say some local libraries demonstrated just how much that cut could affect services. There were black decorations everywhere. Half of the computers were covered, and many of the bookcases have been taped off.
“Once you know how many resources you don’t have to work with, then you have to look at all the things you provide and decide where to make those cuts,” said Susan Hauer, with Lancaster County Libraries.
The state of mourning is all to show what could be lost if libraries lose half of their state funding.
Good
Let the patrons see what can happen when there is no budget. Just make sure you haven’t taped off the section that has the contact numbers for the government officials responsible for the budget.
Until librarians and other library workers
stop sheltering patrons from the effects of budget cuts, monies will not be restored.