Ohio: Kim Fender Testifies at State Senate Finance Committee Hearing About Library Funding
From the Ohio Library Council:
Kim Fender, Director of the Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County and Chair of the OLC Government Relations Committee, presented testimony on public library funding before the Senate Finance Committee. Fender’s testimony focused on the value of the state’s funding to Ohio’s 251 public library systems and how the libraries are serving the needs of Ohio’s communities.
Read the Full Text Kim Fender’s Prepared Testimony (1 page; PDF)
The full OLC news release has more about library funding in Ohio.
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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.