Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Faces Falling Budget, Plans Advocacy, Changes

News  |  www.libraryjournal.com | Aug 11, 2009

Pittsburgh may see a loss or consolidation of branch locations as well as reduction in services, though a new campaign aims to increase support. The library currently has 17 open locations, with one under renovation and a new location in progress. CLP is mostly funded by a .

http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6675993.html?nid=3281

Reports and Budgets - About the Library (Library of Congress)

The Annual Reports of the Librarian of Congress highlight programs, projects and activities that occurred during the year at the Library, as well as details of its normal operations in Washington and around the world.

http://www.loc.gov/about/reports/

Washington’s Pro-Library Moms Score Partial Victory

News  |  www.schoollibraryjournal.com | Mar 14, 2008

Score one for the “Washington Moms.” The three Spokane women who have been passionately pleading their case to adequately fund and improve school libraries statewide succeeded this week in convincing their state legislature to put an $4.0 million “school libraries” line item into the state budget.

http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6540623.html

Library Closed In Budget Crunch

News  |  lisnews.org | Aug 11, 2009

The Omaha Library Board approved a plan Monday afternoon to close one branch and cut hours at nine others in an effort to help the city out of its budget crunch.Story here. (WOWT)

http://lisnews.org/library_closed_budget_crunch

The Future is @ your library

Books. Magazines. CDs. Videos. Databases. Special collections. Reference services. You name it. Libraries provide access to all people – no matter their age, ethnicity, physical ability, income, language, geographic location or type of library.

http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/advocacy/publicawareness/campaign@yourlibrary/prtools/ALA_print_layout_1_228664_228664.cfm

Gwinnett County Library Reinstates Spanish-language Budget

News  |  www.criticasmagazine.com | Jul 15, 2006

On June 28, the Gwinnett County Public Library’s Board of Trustees reversed its move to cut $3000 from the 2007 budget designated for Spanish-language adult fiction.

http://www.criticasmagazine.com/article/CA6352139.html

LibLime Announces New Budget-Friendly ILS for Small Libraries -- [Library Technology Guides]

Web  |  www.librarytechnology.org

Press Release:LibLime Announces New Budget-Friendly ILS for Small Libraries. LibLime announced the launch of a new hosted, subscription-based Koha ILS service: the Koha Express. LibLime's Koha Express is a full-featured integrated library system, distributed via Software as a Service on LibLime's

http://www.librarytechnology.org/ltg-displaytext.pl?RC=14231

PLA Blog » Blog Archive » Local Library News

+ (Winona, MN) - City budget cuts library’s book fund - (from the Winona Post) - “While many City Council members lauded the budget sessions to discuss the 2006 recommended budget as “the best in memory,” some city departments are not feeling as positive about the outcome.

http://plablog.org/2005/09/local-library-news-4.html

Why is the Hospital Library Disappearing?

News  |  kraftylibrarian.com | Jun 17, 2009

This May the Medical Library Association and Association of Academic Health Sciences Libraries released the Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and its Impact on the Health Sciences Library Collections. Budget pressures are hitting academic medical libraries as well has hospital

http://kraftylibrarian.com/?p=53

Budget Questions from School Library Graduate Students - TeacherLibrarianNetwork

Please share your per student budget. What strategies have you used successfully to approach district-or site-level administration to increase per student funding? If this figure is not adequate for your school library program, from where do you get additional funds or resources?

http://teacherlibrarian.ning.com/xn/detail/672799:Comment:28035