Missouri: “Library Director Informs Board of Effort to Lobby Lawmakers for Increased State Funding”
From The Columbia Daily Tribune:
State funding of the Daniel Boone Regional Library system dropped from $104,000 in 2015 to less than $28,000 this year.
Melissa Carr, director of the library system, said she and a contingent of library board and staff members met with all nine members of its legislative delegation Tuesday. She told the Daniel Boone Regional Library Board of Trustees on Thursday that the key message was to restore library funding to 2015 levels.The state in fiscal year 2015 provided $3.5 million for the state’s libraries, or about 50 cents per person. Funding dropped to $723,776 for fiscal year 2016, or about 13 cents per person.
“We were there to talk about how we could affect a change in that,” Carr said. She said Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget proposal didn’t include a funding increase for 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.
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