Public Library News Roundup (19 Stories from the U.S. and Canada)
Here’s a new roundup featuring public library news from around the U.S. and Canada.
All of these articles were published in the past ten days. Thanks to Matt Weaver for his help in preparing this post.
Alaska
Ketchikan: Assembly votes to restore library funding (via KRBD)
Connecticut
Waterbury: City Worker Stole $170K from Library: Police (via NBC Connecticut)
District of Columbia
MLK Library Reconstruction Planning Now Moving Forward; Funding Issues to Delay (via The In Towner)
Florida
Couple Accused of Manufacturing Meth on Grounds of a Sarasota County Library Branch
Miami-Dade Considers Bringing Libraries to Parks in a Cost-Saving Move
Zephyrhills shaves $25,000 from cost of library (via The Tampa Tribune)
Georgia
Statham County Votes to Slash Library Funding (via BarrowCountyNews.com)
Maine
Video: Bangor Public Library close to fundraising Goal (via WLBZ)
Massachusetts
Michigan
Warren: Detroit-area library shut amid bedbug infestation (via AP)
Montana
Great Falls: Library cutting hours, staff due to budget cuts (via Great Falls Tribune)
New York
Queens Library President Thomas Galante is trying to muzzle his board (via NY Daily News)
The New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Receives Single Largest Individual Gift In Its History (via NYPL)
North Carolina
State Library Announces Federal Grants To Local Libraries (via NCPolitialNews.com)
Oklahoma
Mobius Library Lending Program to Include Tulsa City-County Public Library (via AP)
Ontario
Oregon
Eugene: Main library’s Sunday hours clipped (The Register Guard)
Salem: City Council addresses library concerns (via the Statesman-Journal)
Pennsylvania
Chartiers-Houston library could close due to funding cuts (WPXI, Pittsburgh)
Tennessee
Nashville Libraries Encourage People to Grow Food
Texas
$4 million for Central Library will yield new services (via MySanAntonio.com)
Virginia
Waynesboro Library Adjusts to Funding Decreases (via WSHV)
Filed under: Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries, Roundup
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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