Sentences with phrase «cut library funding»

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As Frances Crook wrote in the piece which sparked the row: «Prison libraries are supplied and funded by local authorities and have often been surprisingly good, but so many libraries are now closing and cutting costs that inevitably the first service to feel the pinch is in prison.»

The New York Library Association says library funding is getting cut and is actually below the level required by law.

Last week the City Council approved Mayor Bloomberg's $ 63 billion «austerity» budget, cutting funds for schools, libraries and social programs.

That problem was rooted in part by his decisions to cut funding for the arts and libraries, as well as a stiff personal demeanor and inappropriate comments made while running for governor.

In the case of the Town of Tonawanda Libraries, that Board chose to address the reduced funding by preserving as many full - time personnel, which meant fewer staff hours were available than would have been the case if the budget cuts had been split between full and part - time staff.

Cutting funds and closing libraries is shortsighted and counterproductive.

A Forest Hills congressman took the Republican Party to task Tuesday for the millions of dollars in proposed budget cuts that would harm the working - class and senior citizens of Queens and the borough president bemoaned belt - tightening at the city level after $ 5 million of funding for the long - awaited Queens West library branch become embroiled in -LSB-...]

With fewer people now running the libraries due to funding cuts, this system will greatly improve services.

If enacted, this would result in an $ 18 million reduction in state funding over the past three years and mark the fifth time that library funding has been cut over the same period.

The Governor's proposed Executive Budget would cut state library funding to $ 84.5 million, a reduction of approximately $ 2.5 million over 2009 - 10 budget levels.

Senator Michael Ranzenhofer said, «The final plan secures our fair share of state funding for our school districts in Western New York, and restores funding — initially cut under the Executive Budget proposal — to our local public libraries.

«We have been fighting for several years, as all of you know, to restore the funding that was cut from the libraries beginning in 2008,» said Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, who chaired the hearing, in his opening remarks.

Okay, say teachers, let's build one Dorchester Reporter, January 7, 2016 In the wake of a cut in funding a decade ago, the library at the John W. McCormack Middle School on Columbia Point was closed, leaving students without a quiet, out - of - the mainstream place to study and read... read more.

These cuts are primarily driven by three factors: overstaffing in the previous school year; nine schools getting less federal funding for after - school programs; and the District moving the management of Measure G library funds from school budgets to the central office budget.

Continuing this funding is important to prevent future cuts to academics, positions such as special education teachers, after - school programs, libraries, school athletics, charter schools, and more.

(There are exceptions to this, of course: when library funding is cut, or when libraries themselves are destroyed by natural disaster, as has happened to some branches in Alabama.

And just like the US, the UK is making cuts to cultural funding, including funding for libraries.

More specifically, though, Smith is concerned about the fate of public libraries in her native Britain, where, as in parts of the U.S., funding cuts have made the future of these venerable and necessary institutions tenuous.

According to an article in The Bookseller, in just the Birmingham area, the city council has proposed a # 1.65 million cut to the library system, of which # 50,000 is intended to be taken from its fund to purchase books, and an additional # 150,000 will be carved out of the fund to host public events, such as author appearances and book signings.

They get a proportional cut of the aforementioned lending library fund.

You can download e-Books from our public library in Nashville and there's a lot of conversation about how many times the book can be downloaded before the library has to buy it again from the publisher, but I think what's so important to remember, funding's being cut for everything.

Considering how much libraries have cut the budget for purchasing hard copy books to shift funds to ebooks, this is no surprise.

The symbolism of standing guard to prevent senseless damage to books is not lost on those of us who are reminded almost daily that our right to read is being threatened, either intentionally or not, by an abundance of entertaining electronic media, funding cuts to libraries and schools, even moronic, extremist book banning in our public education institutions by those who wield arbitrary power over curricula.

If he's worried about both bookstores and libraries like he says, shouldn't he be giving the money to the non-profit, government - funded, community institutions that are being squeezed by budget cuts...?»

The webinar will be led by «Advocacy Guru» Stephanie Vance and will look at cuts to library funding and changes to policies impacting libraries.

Politics The controversy in Minnesota continues over Neil Gaiman's speaking fee, with a state House Republican committee chairman now recommending a $ 45,000 cut to the Twin Cites» regional library system budget to make up for the Legacy Fund money paid to the author and comics writer in May 2010.

If the Innovative Approaches to Literacy program is cut, school library programs will lose the only dedicated source of «equity funds» to help ensure that the poorest schools have collections that support the curriculum and student achievement.

If IMLS is cut, all the state libraries around the country will lose critical funding that supports everything from audio books for the blind to 24/7 homework help for school kids to vital services for veterans and their families to interlibrary loans that makes each local library's collection bigger and more efficient.

Bookstores are desperately struggling to survive, often losing to competition with the online booksellers; newspapers and magazines are cutting budgets for paid review coverage; and public libraries are losing funding.

News & Notes is a weekly Saturday post featuring book - and publishing - related news, links to interesting articles and opinion pieces, and other cool stuff Book News In Face of NEA Cuts, Small Presses Worry About Their Futures (Publishers Weekly) Librarians Vow to Fight Trump on Funding Cuts to libraries.

Levy renewal staves off drastic cuts without increasing taxes but does not fund 100 percent of current library services.

Please don't cut funding to our school libraries.

CHICAGO — Seeing the need for urgent action to combat cuts in school library funding, staffing and programming, American Library Association (ALA) President Jim Neal will host a summit in Chicago on May 23, at ALA Headquarters, 50 E. Huron, to work with our nation's library leaders to craft a strategy to advocate for our nation's school libraries.

In an article in the Observer, Lynne Brindley, the chief executive of the British Library, worries that potential funding cuts could threaten the efficiency of the library.

Let administration know that the budget cuts have to stop, there's only so much money that can be saved by the library before the organisation is hurt because of the inadequate library funding.

Eventually the government cut funding to the library, and difficult decisions had to be made about what was core to the organization as a whole, and one of them was that content aimed at external stakeholders was no longer core to its mandate.