Not exact matches
The 2017 Operating and
Grants Budget sustains
library operations and services at current levels.
County funding of $ 23,040,190, combined with $ 2,637,731 in anticipated funding from New York State and $ 1,687,033 in other
library revenue, brings the
Library's 2015 proposed operating and
grants budget to $ 27,364,854, a modest 1.8 % increase over the 2014 adopted
budget.
Galante said the
library had done well with raising money through its Buy - A-Book Drive, but Peralta's
grant was the largest and a boon at a time when the
library has had to cut 70 percent of its book
budget.
County funding of $ 23,474,134; combined with funding from New York State of $ 2,135,104 in operating and $ 655,994 in
grants; use of $ 714,843 in
Library fund balance; and $ 937,010 in other
library revenue, brings the
Library's 2016 proposed operating and
grants budget to $ 27,917,085, a modest 2.1 % increase over the 2015 adopted
budget.
The consortium will pay the contracts from an annual
budget of $ 10 million, which is funded not by authors or research
grants, but by pledges from more than a thousand
libraries, funding agencies and research consortia across the world.
«The tax on books and the closure of
libraries is an attack on writers, bookstore owners, publishers, and students (who are being hit by this
budget six ways to Sunday, through school closures, deep cuts to the university, threats to the tuition freeze, the loss of
grants, job losses in the community colleges, and a hike in the price of already - expensive textbooks).
Granted, the law school
library can be a useful study hall for the students, but that doesn't mean that their
budgets should be going up while everything else is getting slashed.»
The
libraries could collectively manage this to ensure that publishing opportunities within all disciplines, from biomedical to philosophy are covered, likely through both a shifting of
library budgets and a taxing of
grants that allows the
grant - rich disciplines subsidize the rest.
Balanced a $ 15,000
budget, as well as chaired a committee to receive a
grant for increasing station amenities such as wattage, equipment, space, and music
library.