Funny, at our campaign meeting on Saturday we were just saying that someone should do an op-ed piece (we were thinking one of those NPR ones) calling on the first lady to step up and take on the Salinas Library issue (and call attention to the other at-risk and underfunded libraries across the country. And then here it is in the NY Times back on Friday and I completely missed it.
Editorial: An Issue for the First Lady
"The sad state of the nation's libraries was driven home last week when all of the libraries in John Steinbeck's birthplace, Salinas, Calif., came close to closing. The crisis in Salinas is part of a larger picture in which financially strapped local governments have been slashing library hours and book budgets. Public officials, starting with Laura Bush, the most powerful librarian in the world, should be clamoring for greater resources for libraries."
Posted by Emily at April 11, 2005 05:35 PM