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The Chicago City Council has spared the Chicago Public Library (CPL) from the budget knife. Also, CPL will be hiring in preparation for the opening of four new branches this [...]

The British government's most recent Comprehensive Spending Review, which fixed budgets for fiscal years 2011-12 to 2014-15, includes a budget cut of 50 percent for the Department of Culture, Media [...]

In January 2011, owing to what the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette calls 'a lack of confidence in continued support for libraries from state government,' Cranberry Public Library (CPL), PA, will begin charging [...]

The San Diego Public Library's (SDPL) FY12 proposed budget isn't due until next spring, probably not earlier than April 15, 2011, but it's not too soon to start planning, especially [...]

The Friends of the Seattle Public Library recently received a monetary donation. Though modest, it was accompanied by what may possibly be the best letter ever. 'Dear Library,' it reads, [...]

Seattle mayor Mike McGinn, facing an expected $67 million budget deficit next year, on September 27 proposed an 8.5 percent cut in the budget for the Seattle Public Library, to [...]

An ambitious plan to bring library bodies, author societies, book trade groups and campaigners together to deliver a united message to local authority leaders about the importance of the public [...]

In Stevens County, Washington, public libraries are a fairly new concept. Residents voted to form a library district in 1996, transforming a hodgepodge of donation-based collections run by volunteers into [...]

The Evanston Public Library (EPL), IL, Board of Trustees has voted to establish a Public Library Fund (PLF), allowing it to set its own millage, up to a limitation. The [...]

Through community partnerships, Wauconda (Ill.) Area Public Library developed Spanish - and English - language brochures, as well as a video that was posted to You-Tube. Housed in a brand [...]

The busier-than-ever Buffalo & Erie County Public Library (BECPL) recently learned it faces a 21 percent budget reduction for 2011 and is beginning to confront potential changes--including staffing configurations, work [...]

Voters in three Marin County, CA, communities on June 8 approved annual library parcel taxes of $49. The Marin County Free Library, San Anselmo Public Library, and San Rafael Public [...]

The Troy Public Library (TPL), MI, which serves a population of 80,000, will close on June 30, 2011, unless a millage vote is placed on the November 2010 ballot and [...]

Ohio citizens demonstrated their support for libraries on May 5, as 86 percent of library levies passed. Out of the 29 initiatives, 25 were successful; 18 out of 21 new [...]

The death of the public library service is slow. Unlike a limited company there is no moment of liquidation or bankruptcy; the law requiring councils to provide library services, however [...]

Brooklyn Public Library (BPL) is seeking $10 donations from those willing to text BOOKS to 50555 as part of its Support Our Shelves (SOS) campaign to raise $500,000 in three [...]

Seven months after the Chicago Public Library celebrated the gala opening of its $144 million Harold Washington Library Center, the city's branch library system is in disarray, with no money […]

People use libraries more during difficult economic times, becoming a place where homeless spend their days and latchkey children go after school. Budget cuts are forcing libraries to cut back on hours, but many libraries are carving out innovative programs for the people they serve.

Nearly 3500 people have signed a petition protesting the possible closure of the Massachusetts State Library, part of Gov. Deval Patrick's plan to save $600 million in the face of [...]

The Seattle City Council has restored $863,000 to the Seattle Public Library, preserving seven-day service at 11 out of 26 branches plus the central library. Denver mayor John Hickenlooper has [...]

Plans for a long-awaited $185 million new central library in San Diego got a push after years of delay, as the city council voted to bid out the project. Construction [...]

The New York Public Library's expected decline in fundraising in 2009, to $130 million Source: Chronicle of [...]

Raising $130,000--plus from library supporters in less than a month, the Hawaii State Public Library System, faced with cuts and potential branch closures, said that the Mountain View Public and [...]

A little more than two weeks before the Free Library of Philadelphia was prepared to close, under a 'doomsday' budget established in case the state legislature refused to pass a [...]

The south suburban Chicago town of Robbins will continue to enjoy uninterrupted public library service thanks to the infusion of $25,500 in emergency grant funding it was promised just days [...]

The American Library Association (ALA) announced that it has received a $2 million, 3-year grant renewal from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue the "Public Library Funding & […]

AS JOHN BERRY POINTS OUT IN 'NO VILLAINS' (p. 24-25), politics doesn't produce clear-cut heroes and villains in library funding--nor in some other issues, as we've seen with the various […]

Children's author Nick Arnold has helped to save his local library from closure in Appledore, Devon, after a four-year community campaign that raised thousands of pounds to help cover its [...]

Facing a decrease in Regional Asset District (RAD) sales tax collections, the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (CLP) may see a loss or consolidation of branch locations as well as reduction […]

Dallas Public Library (DPL) could lose one-third of its funding, a disproportionate cut, if a proposal before city council is approved. The City of Dallas must eliminate $190 million, or […]

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has announced its third and final round of Opportunity Online hardware grants, $6.5 million apportioned to public libraries in 11 states. While the foundation, […]

In Worcester, MA, where several tax-exempt colleges are beneficiaries of municipal services, two of those institutions have begun supporting the Worcester Public Library (WPL) via payments in lieu of taxes [...]

The six-branch Butte County Library (BCL), Oroville, CA, has endured midyear budget cuts of 23 percent, but the situation at least didn't get worse. The county Board of Supervisors had [...]

The Cedar Rapids Public Library (CRPL), IA, will get $5 million for a new facility from Iowa governor Chet Culver's $830 million IJOBS program. Culver calls it 'FEMA-plus,' intended to [...]

The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County (PLCHC), the only major urban library system in Ohio that operates without local funding, has been depleting its capital and gift funds [...]

The Houston Public Library (HPL), TX, continues to be a major player in the city's literacy and employment efforts, as it has been awarded a $4.5 million grant from Microsoft [...]

ICMA, the professional and educational organization for municipal managers, has awarded $500,000 in grants to nine cities, towns, and counties for new library projects, funded through ICMA's partnership with the [...]