Excerpt from Annual Report: For the Year Ending June 30, 1990 A respite from the budget crisis marked the beginning of fy9o with the following announcement: The Board of Trustees has just approved a revised plan of service for fy9o to reflect the restoration of approximately 8 to the Library budget. This will still be a difficult year for the Library (as for all public institutions) involving many reductions in service. The improvement in the budget came as a result of restoration by the City of and an additional in state ...
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Excerpt from Annual Report: For the Year Ending June 30, 1990 A respite from the budget crisis marked the beginning of fy9o with the following announcement: The Board of Trustees has just approved a revised plan of service for fy9o to reflect the restoration of approximately 8 to the Library budget. This will still be a difficult year for the Library (as for all public institutions) involving many reductions in service. The improvement in the budget came as a result of restoration by the City of and an additional in state funding for the Library as Library of Last Resource by a Senate-sponsored amendment to the state budget which increased the per capita allocation for the Library's reference and research services to the Commonwealth from cents to 71 cents. Thus, planned layoffs of staff were canceled. But reductions were mandated: among them, elimination of Saturday service during the summer months and continued elimination of Sunday services in central, as well as certain reductions of service in branches (including meal closings). Other reductions included the cutback of the development campaign to a skeletal level; diminution of special programs and exhibits; curtailment of printing including design work - on flyers, reading lists, and other publications; delay of the opening of the Dudley Literacy Center; deferment of cataloging the backlog of many materials; and reduction in building maintenance. While attention to the budget loomed large this past year, the Boston Public Library continued to maintain its role as a center of ideas, history, futurism - and discovery. The sense of wonder that the Library houses and shares was best captured in the words of Charles J. Connick whose rare archives on stained glass windows came to the Library in fys9. I thought of crisp flowers glistening in frosty light. Of unnamed jewels in dusky caves, of a quotation about undiscovered loveliness, and of hasty surmises I've since forgotten, but I've never forgotten that burst of uncertain color in a flickering half-light. It was my introduction to the stained glass craft. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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