http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2009/february2009/wsjcloseslibrary.cfm
2/13/2009
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Wall Street Journal to Close its Research Library
On March 23 the research library for the Wall Street Journal was shut down. The news of this happening originally came out on February 5 when Leslie A. Norman, head of the library, announced that her and her colleagues received news that their jobs would be terminated. Leslie and her colleagues were responsible for doing research for reporters so that they could write their articles. Now that the reporters will not have someone else to do their research it will take much longer for them to do their jobs. They will be doing their own research by using a Lexis product called Due Diligence Dashboard and other databases including Factivia.
It is not alarming to me to see that this is happening and I am sure that this sort of thing is happening across the country with the economic crisis that our country is in. Before reading this article I did not know that reporters received much of their research information from someone else. Now it is interesting to see that they are going to be using databases similar to what we have been learning to use in class in order to gather information to write their articles.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Thursday, April 2, 2009
News Report
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/currentnews/newsarchive/2009/march2009/nyplbudgetcrisis.cfm
The three main libraries in New York City, New York Public Library, Queens Library and Brooklyn Library, are expecting major budget cuts after hearing of Mayor Bloomberg’s budget plan for the 2010 fiscal year. The plan calls for a 17% decrease in funding towards the public libraries in the city. The libraries are also expecting to lose nearly $3 million each due to a decrease in state funding. Another cause source of money that the libraries are concerned about is the money they receive from private donations. With the economy looking worse and worse, the libraries are anticipating as much as a $20 million decrease in funding from private donations. In order to deal with these severe budget cuts the NYC libraries are planning on cutting down their hours of operation in some cases to less than five days a week as well as laying off hundreds of workers.
After doing many news reports on similar subjects I have become almost immune to the shocking amounts of budget cuts in libraries across the nation. For most of my news report topics I have turned to the ALA website and it seems like the vast majority of the articles have been about the budget cuts in libraries. This article in particular is a bit more interesting because of the libraries it is dealing with. These New York libraries are so large compared to most I have read about this semester and therefore the amounts of money they will be losing is also much larger.
Kevin Petersen
The three main libraries in New York City, New York Public Library, Queens Library and Brooklyn Library, are expecting major budget cuts after hearing of Mayor Bloomberg’s budget plan for the 2010 fiscal year. The plan calls for a 17% decrease in funding towards the public libraries in the city. The libraries are also expecting to lose nearly $3 million each due to a decrease in state funding. Another cause source of money that the libraries are concerned about is the money they receive from private donations. With the economy looking worse and worse, the libraries are anticipating as much as a $20 million decrease in funding from private donations. In order to deal with these severe budget cuts the NYC libraries are planning on cutting down their hours of operation in some cases to less than five days a week as well as laying off hundreds of workers.
After doing many news reports on similar subjects I have become almost immune to the shocking amounts of budget cuts in libraries across the nation. For most of my news report topics I have turned to the ALA website and it seems like the vast majority of the articles have been about the budget cuts in libraries. This article in particular is a bit more interesting because of the libraries it is dealing with. These New York libraries are so large compared to most I have read about this semester and therefore the amounts of money they will be losing is also much larger.
Kevin Petersen
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