Monday night my library's board met to approve some radical changes in service. Since I have been contacted by friends, students, acquaintances, etc. to see how I am doing and what is going on, I thought I would address it here.

As I have lamented before, voters in our fair village turned down an increase in our tax rate during the March election. With the new budget beginning July 1, all of knew that there would be some changes ahead of us. After soliciting input from staff, the board has elected to make the following changes:

1) The library will be closed Monday and Wednesday nights
2) The library will be charging an annual fee to access the Internet
3) Two staff positions have been completely abolished (not me)
4) One staff member is being moved to a different department (again, not me)

There are other normal/expected changes (raised fines, slashed book budgets, etc.), but the above are the major changes we will be struggling with once we reach the July 1 start date.

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