Libraries Can Raise Money: Public & Private

How do libraries continue to perform at high levels during recessions when libraries are used most?

• Contact the Library Renaissance Project
• 100G Push to Buy Books Public Asked to Ease Library Woes

  The Independence Community Foundation is challenging the people of Brooklyn to help buy books for the borough's 60 public libraries.

• Library's Overdue Add-On's On

  The Brooklyn Library has raised $2 million from private sources, and expects to raise $2 million more for adding a $16 million library auditorium project to a historic building, which also includes a new plaza for the library.

• Loss of Largesse Doesn't Surprise Library Backers

  Several advocates of the District's public libraries said they were disappointed that the system lost a chance to get millions of dollars from financing for a baseball stadium, but few expressed surprise at the outcome.

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