Mississippi: Libraries Relieved as State Funding Stays Steady
After three years of budget cuts, libraries across the state are celebrating a small victory as the Legislature approved level funding for libraries Sunday.
In addition to no further cuts in the personnel incentive grants the Mississippi Library Commission, the package approved by the state House and Senate will cover the health insurance premium increase anticipated to take effect in January 2019.
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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. Gary is also the co-founder of infoDJ an innovation research consultancy supporting corporate product and business model teams with just-in-time fact and insight finding.
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