Public Library News Roundup
1. California: Launching Thursday: San Francisco Public Library Will Provide New “Scholar Card” to 55,000 SF Unified School District Students
1. Maine: Seventeen Libraries Awarded Grants from Income Tax Check-off Fund
2. Maryland: Heidi Daniel Hired to Lead Baltimore’s Pratt Public Library Replacing Carla Hayden (via The Baltimore Sun)
3. Massachusetts: Great Barrington Libraries See Hours Cut (via The Berkshire Eagle)
4. Missouri: Kansas City’s Biggest Libraries Could ‘Weather The Storm’ if Federal Funds are Cut (via KCUR)
5, Oregon: Douglas County Library Hearing Final Step to Losing Recognition (via The News Review)
6. Wisconsin: Local Library Leaders Fear Funding Cuts (via The Journal Times)
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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.