Massachusetts: “Libraries Seeing Little in New State Support”
From the State House News Service (via The Eagle-Tribune):
While libraries in Massachusetts are grappling with different demands from users and new technologies such as electronic books, state funding for the libraries is at the same level it was in 1994, Board of Library Commissioners Director Robert Maier told lawmakers yesterday.
“The funding is way down,” Maier told the House and Senate Ways and Means committees at a budget hearing in the library of Everett High School.
The decreased state funding has set the tone for local funding as well, Maier said. “They feel empowered to reduce their local funding to libraries,” said Maier.
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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.
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