Ugh

[owlmoose]

This is not a good time to be reading library news blogs. Closures, layoffs, unpaid furloughs. Yet another reason to add to the list of why I'm glad I didn't go into the public library sector.

Why, when people need the services a library can provide more than ever, are they the target of the most ferocious budget cuts? I will never understand.

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All Free Philadelphia libraries closing, effective 2 October

[giandujabird.livejournal.com]

http://consumerist.com/5358416/philadelphia-to-close-public-libraries-+-all-of-them-+-october-2nd

and

http://libwww.freelibrary.org/closing/

YOW.

Re: All Free Philadelphia libraries closing, effective 2 October

[owlmoose.livejournal.com]

This came up at dinner last night. :\ I tend to think it's a power play by the library system to spur their users into pressuring the state legislature, but it is certainly possible that they would have to follow through with it, for a time at least. Truly frightening.