Public Libraries: Small Eastern Connecticut Libraries Feeling Pinch
From The Bulletin (Norwich, CT):
“Your library is your future,” reads a sign inside the door of the Central Village Library, underneath a larger sign asking for donations.
The juxtaposition is appropriate — without donations, the small library doesn’t have much of a future, Librarian Shirley DeFosse said Monday.
The town of Plainfield defunded two of its three libraries — Central Village and Plainfield — in 2010, saying that Moosup’s Aldrich Free Public Library was the town’s official library and the only one in need of funding. Plainfield quickly closed, its building sold by the town to owners of a nearby diner for $95,000.
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Filed under: Funding, Libraries, Public Libraries
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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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