Libraries in the News Archive
Bricks for books
The Davidson branch of the Charlotte Mecklenburg (N.C.) Library has hit the $60,000 mark in its fundraising effort to stay open for another year. The campaign is hoping to raise $175,000 to meet a pledge by town officials to contribute to the library budget, which took a drastic cut in county funding. The Library Task [...]
Public libraries: Enablers of dreams
Neal Peirce writes: “America’s public libraries, fast turning themselves into one-stop shops for digital job searches, appear to be staging one of their great historic transformations. Responding to a rush of recession-time visitors, 88% of our libraries now offer access to job databases. What’s amazing is that many libraries are able to maintain the bulk [...]
Public libraries: Victims of the recession
A majority of the country’s library systems are having to make cuts, according to the American Library Association, and many of those cutbacks are quite devastating, even if the headline numbers aren’t as large. As cities and counties deal with the slow recovery, the budgets—many of them adopted this summer for the 2011 fiscal year—have [...]
CyberNavigators help Chicago job seekers
The number of active Chicago Public Library card holders jumped 8% to 1.82 million as of December 2009. CPL Marketing Director Ruth Lednicer estimates that about 60% of internet use there is related to job hunting, and the library has a program to help. CyberNavigators was started in 2008 and provides part-time staffers to help [...]
Pennsylvania librarian campaigns for Keith Richards visit
Library Director Sheila Radcay (right), and at least 621 others on Facebook, would like to have Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards visit the Matthews branch of the Lebanon County (Pa.) Library System in Fredericksburg. Redcay, a lifelong Rolling Stones fan, decided to invite Richards to her library after reading a preview of his autobiography, Life, [...]