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October 2, 2016 by Gary Price

Pennsylvania: “Local Libraries Strain To Meet State Mandates”

October 2, 2016 by Gary Price

From The Daily American (Somerset, PA:)

With only about two months on the job, Ashlee Kiel is still learning all aspects of her role as director of the Meyersdale Public Library.
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According to the state library code, a local chapter must come up with $5 per resident within its service area. The Meyersdale Public Library has 19,000 who live within its region, so the target number is approximately $95,000.
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Pennsylvania Library Association Executive Director Christi Buker said the public library subsidy was approximately $75 million in 2007-08. It was reduced to $60 million in 2009-10, and to $53 million in 2010-11, when it has remained level ever since — a 30-percent overall reduction since 2007 for the state’s 456 public libraries, their branches and their bookmobiles.
“Libraries took a huge funding cut,” Buker said. “We currently have not made any significant progress to get back to that area. None of them have really recovered fully from there.”

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Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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