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Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Books Today in Library News

Posted by Paul Constant on Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 3:04 PM

500px-Flag_of_Rhode_Island.svg.png Jacket Copy has a great story about how how government cutbacks might not be the end for the Providence Public Library System:

Rhode Island, which tied Michigan for the nation's highest unemployment rate in November, is facing state and municipal budget cutbacks. The Providence Public Library, a private nonprofit that has run the city library for 100 years, has proposed leaving open its central branch while closing five of its nine local branches.

Not so fast, a group said in a news conference Monday. Give them to us.

It looks like the The Providence Community Library, "a newly formed nonpfrofit of library and community leaders," is going to get the go-ahead to take over the lesser branches. This could turn into something that other communities will need to pay attention to as budgets get cut everywhere.

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The bigger question is: Why is Rhode Island a state instead of some other state's county?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on January 7, 2009 at 3:17 PM

@1 - Because no one will have us! Visit sometime, and you will understand.

Posted by Providence on January 7, 2009 at 4:31 PM

As we all know from attending genuine Ivy League institutions, Brown is the color of shit.

But any state with a town called Woonsocket, and a place as crushingly nice as Block Island, cannot be ALL bad. Providence, however, is an ass-pit third class.

Posted by Karlheinz Arschbomber on January 7, 2009 at 4:43 PM

The better question is why is #1 allowed to use the internet unsupervised?

Posted by Joseph on January 7, 2009 at 6:03 PM

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