Thursday, April 2, 2009

Take That Buget Cuts

"As the national economic crisis has deepened and social services have become casualties of budget cuts, libraries have come to fill a void for more people, particularly job-seekers and those who have fallen on hard times. Libraries across the country are seeing double-digit increases in patronage, often from 10 percent to 30 percent, over previous years."

Taken from today's front page article in the NY Times. http://http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/us/02library.html?_r=1&hpw=&pagewanted=print