Please come to the Brubeck Room at 10:15 am to hear the discussion and take part in it!  We hope to fill the room.  Everyone’s presence and voice is important.

It will:

Suspend Funding for Cooperating Library Service Units

The Connecticut Library Consortium, a purchasing cooperative of over 900 public, school, academic, and special libraries, through which libraries get a 46.5% discount on books, along with media coops, InfoAnytime, JobNow, and discounts on databases, movie licensing, supplies, furniture, audiobooks, CDs, and DVDs, WILL BE GONE!

Suspend Funding for the Statewide Digital Library

The iCONN online databases, including The New York Times and The Hartford Courant, now free to public, school, and academic libraries, with over 30 million recorded searches, WILL BE GONE!

Suspend Funding for Connecticard Payments

Connecticard, the program that allows state residents to use their hometown library card in any public library by reimbursing municipallibraries for the 4.7 million loans that public libraries make to out-of-towners annually,WILL BE GONE!

Suspend Funding for the Statewide Database Program

ReQuest, the statewide catalog of 20.8 million holdings in CT libraries, which facilitates resource sharing and interlibrary loan, WILL BE GONE!

Suspend Funding for Grants to Public Libraries

Annual state aid payments to 180 public libraries WILL BE GONE!

Reduce Funding for Interlibrary Loan Service

Connecticar, the delivery service that facilitates the sharing of 2 million items annually among libraries in 169 towns acoss Connecticut WILL BE REDUCED BY A THIRD!

In addition, there will be NO FUNDING for the Service Centers, for InfoAnytime, or for CEN, which provides free internet for schools and public libraries!

Kathy Leeds
Executive Director, Wilton Library
President, Connecticut Library Association