Teen Vogue - 6 ways to support public libraries

[Nonny]

Teen Vogue continues to knock it out of the park with political articles, this time with one about libraries (probably since it's national library week). 

www.teenvogue.com/story/support-public-library-trump-budget

Public libraries may be in jeopardy. In mid-March, Donald Trump’s “skinny budget” outline was released, which included cuts to the National Endowment of the Arts and National Endowment of the Humanities, among other agencies. The cuts included an extensive $230 million cut for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which directly affects public library funding. The IMLS also receives funding from other agencies subject to termination or budget cuts, such as Innovative Approaches to Literary program through the Department of Education.

Regarding #2 - Join your local Friends of the Library - our local Friends group spent about $12K providing supplemental funding to our library last year!  Our library has rules that wouldn't allow us to purchase them an iPad like the article mentions (we can't buy any hardware that the library IT department has to maintain), so we spent most of our dollars on program funding.

[minzy]

Thanks for posting! I love our Friends group and encourage everyone to join theirs!