In exciting news for our three public library systems, New York City’s FY16 budget includes an additional $39M in funding
for library services. This significant increase will keep branch
library doors open 6 days a week throughout the boroughs and will bring
500 new jobs. The de Blasio administration has also committed to a
ten-year $300 million capital improvement budget for our libraries, a
sorely needed commitment given the steady deterioration of our libraries’ infrastructure.
The city’s FY16 budget was announced late on Monday evening by Mayor
Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito. The
budget also includes a major increase in funding for the NYPD, the parks department, and the city’s public schools.
This historic increase in funding comes after a multi-faceted
advocacy campaign set forth by New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public
Library, and Queens Library. The three systems teamed up on investinlibraries.org, which includes a white paper detailing their infrastructure issues. The libraries also promoted the hashtag #investinlibraries,
held rallies around the city, created a letter-writing campaign, and
gathered testimonials by the likes of Judy Blume, Junot Diaz, and Tom
Wolfe.
Meanwhile, Urban Librarians Unite staged a 24-hour read-in on June 11 at City Hall. In his interview with Library Journal,
city council majority leader Jimmy Van Bramer called the read-in “a
steady drumbeat” that “made a compelling case that, in a city that sees
growing income disparities and has too many people falling into poverty,
unemployed, struggling, that public libraries are the first line of
defense in the war against inequality and library workers are really at
the front line.”
Read on metro.org
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Thursday, June 25, 2015
Thursday, November 15, 2012
Library in a Disaster Zone - Boing Boing
Library in a Disaster Zone - Boing Boing
Hurricane Sandy devastated some sections of New York City and did massive damage to numerous libraries in Queens. Undaunted, the amazing Queens Library sent a mobile book bus with a rapid response team of librarians, led by Matthew Allison, into the area as soon as roads were opened again.
Maybe it's hard to imagine what a librarian can do when people have no power, no heat, and no food. People in the Rockaways, in Queens, live in crowded conditions, crashing with friends and families, seeing homes where everything was destroyed by flooding. What can a library do when people are cold, tired, hungry, and scared? Read more...
Hurricane Sandy devastated some sections of New York City and did massive damage to numerous libraries in Queens. Undaunted, the amazing Queens Library sent a mobile book bus with a rapid response team of librarians, led by Matthew Allison, into the area as soon as roads were opened again.
Maybe it's hard to imagine what a librarian can do when people have no power, no heat, and no food. People in the Rockaways, in Queens, live in crowded conditions, crashing with friends and families, seeing homes where everything was destroyed by flooding. What can a library do when people are cold, tired, hungry, and scared? Read more...
Monday, August 27, 2012
Book Scholarship for NYC Library School Students | Urban Librarians Unite
Book Scholarship for NYC Library School Students | Urban Librarians Unite
Write the best essay and you get $200 for books and supplies for your MLS/MSLIS degree!
What is the role of the librarian in the city?
Urban Librarians Unite is sponsoring an essay contest to award a book scholarship to one student pursuing a library/information sciences degree in New York City. The contest is simple, write an essay on the topic above: What is the role of the librarian in the city? Read more
Book Scholarship for NYC Library School Students
What is the role of the librarian in the city?
Urban Librarians Unite is sponsoring an essay contest to award a book scholarship to one student pursuing a library/information sciences degree in New York City. The contest is simple, write an essay on the topic above: What is the role of the librarian in the city? Read more
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Grassroots Advocacy: Putting Yourself Out There | American Libraries Magazine
Grassroots Advocacy: Putting Yourself Out There | American Libraries Magazine
By Lauren Comito, Aliqae Geraci, and Christian Zabriskie
By Lauren Comito, Aliqae Geraci, and Christian Zabriskie
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
Save the Buttenwieser Library of the 92Y
It seems like only yesterday that the NY Librarians Meetup met on a cold Sunday to tour the Buttenwieser Library. Unfortunately, without a soul knowing it, the board of directors have scheduled the library as it is currently known to close this Friday, July 31st. Please do everything you can to make your feelings known about this venerable outreach facility. As you recall, the collection is open to the public, available evenings and weekends, and is free-of-charge.
There is a petition going. Please sign it: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/92ylibrary?e.
Shelved at NYC has been following the story: http://shelvedatnyc.blogspot.com/.
Listen to an interview with protestors at last night's protest: http://www.last.fm/music/NYLibrariansMeetup/Library+Advocacy+NYLM+2009
Read a description of our Spring Meetup at the Buttenwieser Library: http://www.meetup.com/NYLibrarians/calendar/9376868/?from=list&offset=0
Lastly, come this evening to The Creek and join Urban Librarians Unite (see Facebook group: http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/event.php?eid=106282167970).
Stephanie Gross,
Organizer NYLM
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