Did you know that Friends of The Seattle Public Library has an online petition? Help us reach our goal for signatures.
If you’re impacted by or unsupportive of a reduction in the hours of 21 branch libraries and their closure on Friday and Sunday all year in 2010, then please sign our petition and pass this link onto friends and family. You might also meet us as we gather signatures and pass out information on the potential consequences of the proposed 2010 budget outside select branch libraries in October:
Broadview branch library- 12 p.m.- 2, Sunday, October 11
Capitol Hill branch library 1-2:30 p.m. Monday, October 12
Columbia branch library 3:30-5 p.m Monday, October 12—-cancelled
Fremont branch library 1 – 2:30 pm Mon, October 12
Greenwood branch library 12-2 pm Saturday, October 17—rained out
Greenwood branch library rescheduled for Sunday, October 18 1:30-3:30 p.m
Ballard branch library 12-2 pm Sunday, October 18
Wallingford Branch 2-4 pm Monday, October 19
Magnolia Branch 10 am to 12 noon, Thursday, October 22nd
Northeast Branch 1 pm to 3 pm, Saturday, Oct 24th
Highpoint Branch 10 am to 11:00 am, Thursday, Oct 22–cancelled
Delridge Branch 11:15 am to 12:00 pm, Thursday, Oct 22—cancelled
Seattle Bookfest, Friends of The Seattle Public Library are at Bookfest. So is our petition against library closures and reductions to hours. Sign the petition at our Bookfest bookswap. We’ll see you there.
Where can I find this online petition? I want to sign it!
Anne G
I live in Pittsburgh, our Carnegie Library system has 19 neighborhood branches. These were built by industrialist Andrew Carnegie, but he did not endow them, so operating expenses are covered by various sources. Last week the library system announced they will close a number of neighborhood branches, including mine, the Lawrenceville branch built in 1898, which houses the first Children’s Library in the nation.
One source of library funding is the “RAD” tax, it gives $17 million/yr. to the libraries and $13 million to our professional baseball & football teams’ arenas/fields.
Our libraries are free, have 19 locations and over 2 million visitors/year.
Our baseball & football teams’ tickets cost big $$, have only 2 locations and less than 2 million visitors/year.
The petition is at http://apps.facebook.com/causes/petitions/282
Thanks to all the Fremont folks who stopped to sign the petition and told me their stories. Good luck to the job searchers I talked to. Thanks too, to Fremont Universe for posting: http://www.fremontuniverse.com/2009/10/12/petition-to-keep-fremont-library-open/?dsq=19935384#comment-19935384
http://www.wallyhood.org/2009/10/sign-library-petition-today-2-4-pm/
Thanks for mentioning the Friends petitioning today
[...] Sign our online petition or meet us in the community [...]
Thanks Magnolia Voice for getting the word out to your community about our petitioning at Magnolia Branch 10/22 10 am to 12 noon
http://www.magnoliavoice.com/2009/10/21/petition-to-protest-cuts-in-magnolia-library-hours/?dsq=20735964#comment-20735964
Thanks to Laurelhurst blog for getting the word out to Northeast and University patrons!
http://thelaurelhurstblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/help-keep-our-libraries-open.html