An otherwise well researched editorial “Take a stand for public libraries” errs in saying:
“Locally, Lancaster County kicks in about $2 million per year toward libraries — about half of it going to the county’s library system, which provides support services such as database subscriptions, staff training and the online catalog county residents can use to find a book in one of the county’s 14 member libraries.”
We are advised the Library System (as opposed to the libraries themselves) consumes over 95% of all of the funds made available by the county commissioners.
Now the System wants to conduct its own fund raising, which would compete for and detract from the only funding, apart from the state and other grants, upon which individual libraries rely.
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LNP making a error of fact…..who knew?????
If I remember correctly (always a big “if” anymore!), weren’t funds siphoned from the library system in order to help fund the white elephant on Penn Square?
LNP conveniently forgets/ignores some fact as well.
EDITOR: The expansion and renovation of the downtown, Lancaster Public Library was stymied when $3 million of promised State aid was used instead to cover convention center construction deficits.