Douglas County, Oregon: “Latest Library Budget Cut The Harshest, Officials Say”
From KPIC:
The Douglas County Library System continues to face budget cuts, but the system’s director says they are still optimistic about the future.
Though Douglas County has been reducing the overall budget for its library system over the last 10 years, officials say the most recent cut was the harshest – it received a 25 percent cut for the current fiscal year.
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Until the taxing issue is decided, local libraries are continuing on half-a-million dollars’ worth of grants, money which will last only until December 31.
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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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