Tag Archives: CA budget crisis

Libraries in the News

There were two interesting stories in today’s local papers about libraries. Enjoy! Check out some interesting resources at Santa Monica’s public library: people.   Here’s information google can’t touch. Patrons can “check out” experts on health, civics, advocates and just plain neat folks for brief conversation opportunities. It’s their “Living Library Project,” and I’d hate to see [...]

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Because it could be worse

We can moan and groan all we want in Long Beach about budget cuts, but at least we’re not in this school district: Superintendent Linda Paramore says to deal with this reality, the school board has sent every employee a pink slip. From NPR: In Pontiac, Mich., Schools, Everyone Gets A Pink Slip.

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Long Beach School Librarians a Top Priority

Long Beach Unified has just published the results of a comprehensive budget survey, designed to help identify priority programs as huge budget cuts loom. There were almost 6200 responses and among the top results were elementary and middle school libraries.  Here are the results broken down  for middle school:   This tells me a few things [...]

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Long Beach Supt. to Take 10% Pay Cut

Funds Will Assist LB Employees During Economic Crisis   It was a very sobering meeting on the Long Beach Board of Education tonight (1/26/09). The topic was to be the huge cuts coming to education funds once Sacramento has its way. Of course, the Long Beach librarians were there in number. We know from experience that [...]

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