Queens, NY Public Libraries Face Deep Cuts

From the New York Daily News:

Queens Library will need to reduce its staff by 200 full-time positions and cut hours at most of its branches, its executive director warned yesterday.

Under the city\’s preliminary budget for fiscal year 2003, the library is facing \”the single largest funding reduction ever in the history of the Queens Library,\” Gary Strong said at a hearing of the Queens Borough Board on the budget . . .

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