From: Lormand, Saundra (sklorma@sandia.gov)
Date: Fri Apr 08 2005 - 13:54:33 PDT
Subject: RE: SLA-SF: FW: [CALIX:3859] NY Times editorial about Salinas....... Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2005 14:54:33 -0600 Message-ID: <D9DA210B395C2648824A19771D59999734AB3C@ES23SNLNT.srn.sandia.gov> From: "Lormand, Saundra" <sklorma@sandia.gov>
I think this is a great idea. Hopefully Lincoln will get your msg.,
Karen, and someone will respond.
sl
Saundra Lormand
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-----Original Message-----
From: SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu [mailto:SLA-SF@exploratorium.edu] On
Behalf Of Karin Zilla
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 12:00 PM
To: SLA Listserve
Subject: SLA-SF: FW: [CALIX:3859] NY Times editorial about
Salinas.......
Perhaps Lincoln Cushing or someone directly involved can address a
letter to the Times explaining how long and hard they worked to restore
26 hours per week of library service, an average of a little more than 8
hours for each of the three libraries. Not exactly a resolution to the
crisis but a mini Band-Aid.
Karin
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-calix@listproc.sjsu.edu
[mailto:owner-calix@listproc.sjsu.edu]On
Behalf Of Kim Anderson
Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 11:32 AM
To: calix@listproc.sjsu.edu
Subject: [CALIX:3859] NY Times editorial about Salinas.......
New York TimesApril 8, 2005EDITORIAL An Issue for the First Lady he sad
state of the nation's libraries was driven home last week when all of
the libraries in John Steinbeck's birthplace, Salinas, Calif., came
close to closing. The crisis in Salinas is part of a larger picture in
which financially strapped local governments have been slashing library
hours and book budgets. Public officials, starting with Laura Bush, the
most powerful librarian in the world, should be clamoring for greater
resources for libraries.
The troubles in Salinas began last fall, when two referendums that would
have brought in more tax money went down to defeat. The City Council
responded by voting to close all three of Salinas's libraries.
Such a step would have made Salinas, a farming community that was the
site of some of Cesar Chavez's biggest drives to organize farmworkers,
the largest city in the nation without a library. Money has since been
raised, and Salinas has backed down from the closings, but the
libraries' situation remains precarious.
There have been many library cutbacks across the country that have
gotten far less attention. Detroit has slashed library services, and the
library in Bedford, Tex., has closed its doors for at least six months.
The New York Public Library's services were cut substantially after the
Sept. 11 attacks, and have come back only recently.
As globalization takes hold, American workers have more competition than
ever before from well-educated, hard-working people in places like India
and China. For the United States to maintain its standing and its
standard of living, it needs to make a greater commitment to books,
literacy training, materials on English as a second language, and all of
the other services libraries provide.
Congress should make libraries a higher priority. But even if it does,
most of the money for libraries will still be raised at the state and
local level, where the competition for budget dollars is intense.
Mrs. Bush, who is a librarian, has quietly supported greater federal
spending on libraries and started a small foundation for libraries. But
she would be doing a real service if she spoke out more forcefully to
encourage states, local governments and private donors to give libraries
the resources they need. Second terms are a time when occupants of the
White House usually think about their legacies. Being the nation's
foremost champion of libraries would be a laudable one for Mrs. Bush.
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