- Write to your City Council Member via this New York Public Library link
- Email Mayor Bloomberg and let him know, in 300 words or less, why library service cuts are unacceptable to you and your community
- Sign Queens Library's online petition
- Sign City Councilman Vincent J. Gentile's Save NYC Public Libraries petition
- Donate to Brooklyn Public Library's Support Our Shelves campaign, NYPL's Keep Your Library Open campaign, and/or Queens Library's Buy-a-Book campaign
- Join the Save NYC Libraries Facebook group
13 May 2009
Take Action! Help Save Our Libraries
Have you been hiding in a cave? Secret bunker? Canada? Here's the bad news, little bear: Mayor Bloomberg's proposed 2010 budget calls for a 22% cut in funding for New York City's public libraries. All three systems have mounted some form of response, but they need your help. Here's what you can do:
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Brooklyn's Support Our Shelves campaign will do nothing to prevent layoffs, 1-5 library hours, etc. It is only for materials.
Very true, but library collections will be impacted by budget cuts as well. The post was intended to offer various forms of action one might take. The really ineffective one is the Save NYC Libraries facebook group! (Though it should engender useful discussion and commiseration has its place.)
"Ineffective" is not really the right word. What I meant is that, unlike the other links I listed, it's an indirect medium for affecting change...but it's obviously a great way to spread the news about this critically important cause!
There's now an online petition at the Brooklyn Public Library website:
https://bpl.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/adv/helpus.aspx
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