[NEohioPAL] Fw: Library Funding Cuts Proposed

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This is VERY important. Please take a moment to read and then send a prewritten letter.

~Raychel

--- On Tue, 6/23/09, DISCOVERY_PLACE_LIBRARIES at COLUMBUSLIBRARY.ORG <DISCOVERY_PLACE_LIBRARIES at COLUMBUSLIBRARY.ORG> wrote:

From: DISCOVERY_PLACE_LIBRARIES at COLUMBUSLIBRARY.ORG <DISCOVERY_PLACE_LIBRARIES at COLUMBUSLIBRARY.ORG>
Subject: Library Funding Cuts Proposed
To: PeacePunk43 at yahoo.com
Date: Tuesday, June 23, 2009, 1:54 PM

                             URGENT                                           
             ACT NOW to SAVE OUR LIBRARIES                                    
                                                                              
                                                                              
   Governor Strickland proposes to fill Ohio's $3.2 billion shortfall in the  
state budget by eliminating $200+ million from the Public Library Fund over   
the next two years.  His proposal will have a drastic impact on all 251 public
libraries in Ohio and on Columbus Metropolitan Library in particular.         
                                                                              
  This proposal by the Governor cuts library funding by 50% beginning July 1, 
2009.                                                                         
                                                                              
  We only have days to have an impact.                                        
                                                                              
1. Today, contact your legislators.  We've made it easy to do.  Go to:        
http://columbuslibrary.org.                                                   
                                                                              
2. Call Governor Strickland's office at 614-466-3555.                         
                                                                              
   The Governor's proposed funding cuts come at a time when Ohio's public     
libraries are experiencing unprecedented increases in demands for services. In
every community throughout the state, Ohioans are turning to their public     
library for free job help, children and teens are beginning summer reading    
programs and people of all ages are turning to the library for information and
assistance during this economic downturn. That is no truer than here at CML.  
We cannot allow these cuts to succeed, cuts which will drastically reduce     
services and access. Act now.                                                 



      
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