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Public library presents budget essentials its annual municipal budget deliberations to the point where library staff have been able to develop new programs to attract more people to come to the library, either to borrow books or take part in a variety of other activities like digital scrapbooking, attend book launches by local writers, and bring children in to enjoy regular story time sessions.
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sit and read. “This is something that is happening all across Ontario,” Rouse said. “It’s a mis- conception that libraries are going down (in popularity) in Ontario. They’re going up, because they’re meeting community needs.” Rouse then outlined the public library budget proposal for addition to the preli- minary 2017 municipal budget. The original proposal was for $111,000 but library staff reviewed and trimmed it to $91,000, to cover both necessary operations and allow for new book or other resource purchases plus maintaining current programs. “I’m not asking for extra here, I’m not asking for fluff,” Rouse said. “I’m just asking to continue with what we have now. To main- tain what we have now.”
Clarence-Rockland city council members got some sweet praise first, before receiving the proposed budget for the municipal public library. “It’s all due to you guys,” said Catherine Rouse, chief executive officer for the Cla- rence-Rockland Public Library. Rouse reminded council of the situation a few years ago, prior to the last municipal election. The previous council’s cost-cutting measures had reduced the public library budget to the point where the staff had to scramble, often in vain, to find money to even buy new books. The current council has supported the library each year during
“That (story time) is our most popular program,” Rouse said. “And our book loans have doubled because we have money to buy books and we can get the books that people want.” Rouse described the current public li- brary situation for both the Rockland and Bourget branches as like mini-community centres where people can do more than just
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