Audio: Public Libraries: "Whither the Library" (Toronto Public Library)
The City of Toronto is facing down a serious budget shortfall. And as city council looks for places to cut, councilor Doug Ford, the brother of Mayor Rob Ford, started counting library branches. Today we look at the debate over balancing the books by closing libraries.
Read Transcript/Listen to the CBC’s Current Program (Recorded on August 2, 2011)
Note: The Toronto Public Library is the busiest urban public library system in the world.
See Also: Poll Finds Large Majority of Canadians Want Their Public Libraries Publicly Funded
Filed under: Libraries, Public Libraries
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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