• tacosanonymous@lemm.ee
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    1 day ago

    I’m a public librarian. Just dreading the day we are defunded. They’ve already attacked our national orgs.

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      Maybe this varies geographically, but our town’s libraries are directly funded by the town. We recently improved a millage for renovations. I hope they would be pretty insulated from… sillyness.

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        23 hours ago

        Most libraries also have significant federal funding, and rely on resources maintained with federal funding, even if state and local funding is higher

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          Absolutely this. Our federal money actually comes through the state org which takes care of a whole bunch of stuff like our inter library loans and access to Kanopy/Libby.