4 Library Branches Get Temporary Closure Reprieve

By Monica Brady-Myerov
Jun 21, 2010, 2:38 PM
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BOSTON — Boston Public Library has postponed closing four branches which were originally scheduled to shutter in the fall.

The city is postponing the closures — in Brighton, Dorchester, East Boston and South Boston — to make time to study the impact of shutting the branches. Mayor Thomas M. Menino will plug the funding gap for next year while the city looks at what happens to the buildings and where it can relocate some of the programs.

The decision comes as Boston’s City Council has criticized the branch closures as hasty and rushed. The Library’s Board of Trustees voted to close four branches in April after more than a dozen public meetings.

Administrative cuts at the Central Copley Square library will go forward and include cutting 68 positions, which will save more than $2 million.

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http://www.originalpapercuts.com Leslie Miller

This really is madness.
DPW workers get paid for standing around and watching other people work! I use the South Boston Branch and it is always busy, with the most helpful librariarians. Always lots of kids and families.

We are becoming a country, who doesn’t read, who listens to Mass media without being able to wanting to question that information. We need a nation of readers and questioners. Closing Branch libraries, especially in areas of Boston where schools have no or awful libraries… Everyone complians about education. Wel… Libraries teach…