[LM_NET] GEN: NEWS article: Salinas, CA closes public libraries

[Suzanne Ng <suzanne@WHATEXIT.COM>]

I realize this isn't about school libraries, but it will affect them:


  Steinbeck's town closing the book on all its libraries
  Tuesday, December 28, 2004
  BY RACHEL KONRAD
  Associated Press

http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-19/
110421453658840.xml


... Facing record deficits, the City Council voted Dec. 14 to shut all
three of Salinas' libraries, including the branches named after
Steinbeck and labor leader Cesar Chavez. The blue-collar town of
150,000 could become the most populous U.S. city without a public
library....

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Suzanne Ng, Librarian
South Mountain Elem. School
South Orange, NJ 07079
email: sng@somsd.k12.nj.us
http://www.southmountain.somsd.k12.nj.us
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