Florida: “Six Jacksonville Libraries Could Shutter Under Plan to Find $2.4 Million in Cuts”
From The Times-Union (Jacksonville, FL):
Six library locations would close, a day and hours would be sliced from operations and materials would be cut if the Jacksonville Public Library is forced to find $2.4 million in reductions.
That’s the level of reductions the library would have to make if all city departments had to find 13.9 percent in cuts to the budgets they submitted to Mayor Alvin Brown’s office for the administration’s preliminary financial picture.
Responding to a directive from Brown’s office, the library’s board of trustees voted Thursday on a plan that would shutter the Maxville, Brentwood, San Marco, Willowbranch, University Park and Beaches branches. The plan would also eliminate Sunday operations throughout the city and cut eight hours at the Main Library downtown.
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Filed under: Funding, Libraries, News, 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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