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Library Vital to Immigrants Squeezed by City Budget
The small McKinley Park branch in Dyker Heights bustles with immigrants but struggles to meet demand after years of cuts to the library system.
World's Greatest Novels—Not At Your Local Library?
A trip to six Brooklyn branch libraries in low-income neighborhoods found that many classic novels are not on the shelves. As budgets tighten and many readers go digital, do these missing titles represent A Brave New World or Darkness at Noon?
Brooklyn Library Facing Lower Budget, Higher Demand
Despite the Internet age and the e-book craze, Brooklyn's libraries are seeing increasing usage. But budget cuts are one challenge the system might not be able to surmount.
At Zuccotti Park, a People's Library
The library holds over 1,200 books from an array of genres, including politics, poetry, religion, gender studies, foreign language, and science fiction.
The War on Terrorism—at the Library
Section 215 of the Patriot Act amended the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to allow the FBI to seek a broader range of "tangible items" like "books, records, papers, documents, and other items."
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NEW RULE LIMITS LIBRARY USAGE
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CASHHHH, PLEASE: LOW PAY LEADS TO LIBRARY SHUTDOWNS
Libraries are commonplace in New York City and are frequently visited by students and adults alike for access to literature and online materials. Due to recent budget cuts, certain institutions are finding it difficult to provide their visitors with essential books and other resources.
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What Does the City's Recovery Need? More Libraries
Libraries perform a critical role in workforce development for low-income New Yorkers. But budget cuts have so curtailed service that Detroit's libraries are now open more than New York's.
Living Dangerously … at the Library?
In the age of the Internet and an era of shrinking government budgets, are public libraries worth taxpayers' dollars. A conservative policy analyst—and former library worker—says "yes."
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Economic Impact of Libraries in New York City
Research for an April 16, 2012 joint hearing of the New York City Council's Committee on Small Business, Cultural Affairs, Libraries & International Intergroup Relations and the Select Committee on Libraries, on the role played by the 214 branch and four research libraries operated by New York's three library systems.
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