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Libraries reduce book budgets
Authors
are seeing purchases of their books being reduced in Irish public libraries
as a result of the economic downturn.
Libraries in Co Monaghan were told by Monaghan County Council that the
new-book budget of €165,000 was suspended, due to a shortage of funds.
The budget for new books in Galway city and county’s 30 libraries
was cut from €550,000 to €100,000.
Some other libraries have had cuts imposed of more 80 per cent in new-book
funds for 2009.
Libraries also use the allocation to purchase and to make available periodicals
and newspapers to library readers. This service is under threat
Galway Library has had to limit daily newspapers mainly to city branches
and cut the number of new books to one between all branches, according
to local reports.
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