I am asking freepers to ask their reps to CUT the budget to the public libraries!!!
My sister gets paid $125/hr from multiple libraries to teach arts & crafts. The same libraries also teach yoga classes(competition with the gym) and lets you rent DVD (why have netflix/redbox).
Apparently most libraries pay teachers $125/hr in return for each supporting budget increases. Paying someone $10/hr or asking for a volunteer is too much!
CUT THE LIBRARY BUDGET!
The person is probably being paid $125 to teach a one-hour course. That’s not unusual.
What’s also not unusual is for a local govt to cut spending on very popular and well-used public services in order to create public outcry against cuts and for additional funding. Instead, they should be focusing on waste, fraud, and reducing the local govt bureaucracy. We’ve got the wrong people in office.
I don’t go in my library anymore. The “New Books” section is always the same: a few books on gays, a few on evil conservatives and a few on the Holocaust. Look in history and find nothing on the horrors of communism. In religion, its difficult to find a book which isn’t a refutation of orthodox Christian belief. For a while I was making them work and bring book from other libraries but finally gave up on that. If the library in my CT town closed, I would cheer. we had one of the first good libraries in CT too...it was the library of the minister who founded what became Yale University.
Not most libraries. Usually those extra programs are paid for through separate donations. The building and all related maintenance, books and other lending materials, and salaries are supported by the actual budget. As budget cuts go into effect, those donations will be shuttled to maintain the circulating collection.
At my library, the staff has already taken cuts in pay (we all agreed to it) and we stopped hiring outsiders to do those craft and story times (something I always thought was an extravagance anyway).