Like the old Beatles' song the Wellsville Carnegie Library will be trying to "get by with a little help from my friends". In an effort to stave off cut backs in services, hours of operation, or staff the Wellsville Library is looking to start up a "Friends of the Library" group. The primary goal is to get a group of library friends together to generate ideas to raise funds to cover the cut-back amounts from the State budget cuts.
This morning's papers reported a couple of libraries in the county cutting back hours and staff. The EL Library Board even voted to reduce salaries of some of the remaining staff. Wellsville's Library Director Tracee Murphy is trying to avoid such drastic steps.
In the early stages of organizing a Friends Group, Murphy is putting out feelers to see who and how many are willing to help and when best to meet. There is a form available at the library to register your name and to answer a couple of questions. Stop by and fill one out.
Use of the library has been increasing in these economic times and our library has always been there for us. Now is the good time to show some appreciation of that and help where you can. Please consider joining the Friends Group.
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Interesting, isn't it, that Wellsville's library is doing all it can to SAVE money while not hurting employees or patrons while the other two are bemoaning their fates and whining that they need to cut salaries, etc.
They need to look at their top-heavy administrative salaries in ELO, at least.
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