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Pennsylvania Libraries Seek Public’s Aid to Restore FundsIn an effort to avert possible service reductions and closures, Pennsylvania librarians are again soliciting the public’s assistance in urging state senators to restore $37.5 million that was cut from the $75 million statewide public library services budget. The latest effort was launched after the House in October restored millions of dollars sliced from the budgets of other state services such as drug rehabilitation programs, hospitals, and mass transit but failed to include any portion of the 50% library-fund reduction.A public-education campaign about the library budget crisis began in June. “We’re getting a lot of response and people are agreeing to contact legislators,” Fred Natale, director of the Monessen Public Library and District Center, said in the November 10 Uniontown Herald-Standard. “Right now, we’re concentrating on the state Senate, especially the Republican majority.” Calling the reduced funding “strangulation,” Glenn Miller, executive director of the Pennsylvania Library Association, said in an October 28 PaLA website posting that: “Clearly, the Senate recognizes the injustice of leaving library funding out. What is less clear is how much restoration can be secured and subsequently approved by the governor and the State House.” The bill now awaits Senate action. Posted November 17, 2003. |
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