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The Medina County (Ohio) District Library now has all its tax money back after a bank error caused $192,000 in state funding to be deposited into the account of a […]

Following the defeat of a public referendum that would have allowed it to survive a million-dollar cut the city made to its budget last year, the Niagara Falls (N.Y.) Public […]

The 114-year-old Hampden (Mass.) Free Public Library closed its doors June 30 after voters failed to approve a May 16 Proposition 2 1/2 override that would have included $108,000 to […]

Despite economic woes, libraries in several states received good news in this year's round of budget battles. The budget signed by Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell July 7 includes $61.3 million [...]

Facing a bleak scenario for state public library funding--frozen at 2004 levels through December, then cut by five percent beginning in January 2006 through June 2007 (see News, LJ 4/15/05, [...]

A committee of the Philadelphia city council voted April 27 to rescind $30 million in bond financing it had authorized in December to help fund the $120-million renovation of its […]

The budget challenges faced by the Mooresville Public Library (MPL) and Morgan County Public Library (MCPL) and the necessary steps taken to turn their loss into a community's gain are discussed. The marketing and public information campaign for the Public Library Access Card (PLAC), which provides access to any public library in Indiana for one year, helped in making the annual charge palatable to the patrons.

Children's library and theater, planned at $31M, to cost $41M The ImaginOn children's library and theater, an innovative hybrid planned by the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County, NC, [...]

Thanks to the generosity of an anonymous woman in Clark County, Indiana, the Louisville (Ky.) Free Public Library and four libraries in southern Indiana will divide $1 million bequeathed to [...]

Library scofflaws beware: The collection agency's coming. Indianapolis-Marion County Public Library leaders have enlisted the help of a Jeffersonville company to recover thousands of overdue books and related fines, hoping [...]

The 52-branch Buffalo & Erie County Public Library, NY, may be forced to close all but the main library if the county goes ahead with a proposed cut of $18 [...]

The Dickson County Public Library and Lifelong Learning Center, TN, is finally Free from the threat of having the state take back 20,000 books--about 20 percent of its collection--and curtail [...]

The Salt Lake City Council has approved the Salt Lake City Public Library System's request for additional funding, including a $1.7 million tax increase. Last year, the library slashed projected [...]

Staffers of the Stark County District Library, Canton, OH, have begun taking a week's unpaid leave in an effort to help the facility get through a financial crunch. Director Kent [...]

School and public libraries nationwide are gearing up for another year of budget cuts, layoffs reduced hours, and closures. Some 2,800 K-2 students in Little Falls, MN, will be without [...]

Blaming incomplete reports on construction and bond costs and miscalculations on interest income, the Akron-Summit County Library has less money than anticipated for capital projects, which means one planned branch [...]

>From the 64,000-member American Library Association (ALA) to an elementary school in Sweet Home, OR, the library community is reaching out to war-torn Iraq, providing much-needed books and other supplies […]

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is giving $5.8 million in challenge grants to state library agencies in 18 states as part of a renewed effort to help public libraries [...]

When LJ asked Cleveland Public Library Director Andrew Venable about the chances that voters would embrace a 5.8 mill tax hike to aid the library, he answered, 'Damn good' (see [...]

"Stop the Attack on Public Libraries" was the rallying cry February 25-27 when union members representing New York City librarians distributed more than 5,000 informational leaflets outside branches in Manhattan, […]

Public support convinced city authorities to shelve the closing of seven of the Oakland Public Library's 15 branches. The city council also voted to restore $96,000 for books and materials, [...]

Few state budgets have been as harshly affected by the worsening national economy as California's. In order to close an estimated $34.6-billion budget shortfall, Gov. Gray Davis has proposed cutting [...]

Most libraries know what it's like to struggle with finding funding. Getting a levy or tax hike passed is hard work. Living through lean times that freeze hiring and stifle [...]

Paul Robeson Malcolm X Academy in Detroit and Rowe (Mass.) Elementary School are the recipients of the 2014 catastrophic disaster relief grants offered as part of the American Association of [...]

Normally, libraries receive funds that support technological advances and help staff assist patrons and increase outreach. That is not the case, however, for performance libraries that are part of larger [...]

New York City's three library systems, like other city and city-funded agencies, must absorb budget cuts in the wake of the city's worst fiscal crisis since the 1970s. Mayor Mike [...]

A volatile stock market has eroded one California library's trust fund by nearly $100,000 and is indirectly threatening acquisitions budgets-- often funded by endowment investments--at Utah colleges and universities. The [...]

Public and school libraries from New York to Hawaii may soon be reeling from proposed budget cuts that threaten to dramatically reduce their staff and hours, and, in one instance, [...]

Omaha (Nebr.) Public Library is the 2002 recipient of the $4,000 Grolier National Library Week Grant for its program 'Find your story @ your library.' The award is sponsored by [...]

Library advocates urged increased funds for libraries at a hearing February 14 held by the House Subcommittee on Select Education on the Museum and Library Services Act reauthorization. The reauthorization [...]

A West Virginia legislator has proposed using scratch-off lottery tickets to raise money for public libraries. Delegate Jerry Mazzatesta (D-Hampshire) made the suggestion after acting state Library Commissioner J. D. [...]