Video: $6.6. Million Worth of State Funds Withheld from Missouri Libraries
UPDATED August 12
Additional coverage in this story from the AP: “Libraries feeling pinch of state budget fight”
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Original Post
From KODE-TV/FourStatesHomePage.com:
“This is huge and it will hurt,” says Joplin Public Library Director Jacque Gage.
It’s a 6.6 million dollar cut– affecting libraries across the Show Me State.
“We currently get 50 cents per capita for everyone in our library district to assist with library services,” says Gage.
In Joplin, this means a loss of about $33,000 come November
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It’s unclear how the library will make up for the loss.
“Budget shortfalls are always difficult to deal with and it comes down basically to collection and programs, will be probably what takes the hit,” says Gage.
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See Also: Library State Funding in Jeopardy!(via McDonald County, MO Library; August 1, 2014)
Filed under: Funding, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
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