Showing posts with label Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal to eliminate state funding for public libraries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal to eliminate state funding for public libraries. Show all posts

Sunday, January 16, 2011

California Librarians Push Back Against Brown's Zero Budget for Public Libraries; Library Journal, 1/14/11

Michael Kelley, Library Journal; California Librarians Push Back Against Brown's Zero Budget for Public Libraries:

"California's public librarians are concerned that if Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal to eliminate all state funding for public libraries were to pass, that it could grievously harm a subtle but vital ecosystem that underpins statewide library collaboration. And they are planning a grass-roots campaign to change the governor's mind.

Brown's proposal would eliminate funding for the Public Library Fund (PLF), the California Library Literacy and English Acquisition Service, and the California Library Services Act (CLSA). All told, $30.4 million."