SAVE OHIO LIBRARIES!
Attention Ohioans: In case you didn't know, Governor Strickland has proposed a possible 50% budget cut to all Ohio libraries. Our library system has been voted best in the nation more than once, so it's hard to believe that something like this is happening. Of course, people are up in arms about it, and there is a rally today at the Cleveland Public Library, as well as one tomorrow at the Ohio Statehouse: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=118707835375&ref=nf
More info: http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/06/22/daily10.html
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20090624/NEWS01/306240004
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/06/23/library.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101
Everybody knows the economy is bad, but closing libraries is NOT the answer. Libraries provide free entertainment, it's true, but students RELY on them. In addition, people who are looking for jobs but don't have computers or resources at home to look for them will have nowhere to go.
Columbus Metropolitan Library has made a very very easy page to use to contact Ohio Legislators to protest this, and to use as a resource for updating Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc. http://www.columbuslibrary.org/save_our_library Please do it, guys!!
More info: http://columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/stories/2009/06/22/daily10.html
http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/article/20090624/NEWS01/306240004
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/06/23/library.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101
Everybody knows the economy is bad, but closing libraries is NOT the answer. Libraries provide free entertainment, it's true, but students RELY on them. In addition, people who are looking for jobs but don't have computers or resources at home to look for them will have nowhere to go.
Columbus Metropolitan Library has made a very very easy page to use to contact Ohio Legislators to protest this, and to use as a resource for updating Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, etc. http://www.columbuslibrary.org/save_our_library Please do it, guys!!