The rights to thousands of books are at the center of a conroversy brewing in the Town of Tonawanda.
In question are about 30,000 books remaining at the now-closed Brighton Library, one of 15 libraries shutting down by year’s end to cut expenses in the Buffalo & Erie County Public Library system.
A citizen group, Friends of the Brighton Library, hopes to use the Brighton Road building as a community reading room and wants all the materials left behind for public use.
The town’s Library Board, meanwhile, already has planned a one-day book sale at Brighton, with the proceeds to benefit the two cash-strapped libraries staying open in Tonawanda.
Who should get the books?”>Buffalo News – When a library closes, who gets the books?
Michael Sauers is currently the Director of Technology for Do Space in Omaha, NE. Michael has been training librarians in technology for the past twenty years and has also been a public library trustee, a bookstore manager for a library friends group, a reference librarian, serials cataloger, technology consultant, and bookseller since earning his MLS in 1995 from the University at Albany’s School of Information Science and Policy. Michael has also written dozens of articles for various journals and magazines and his fourteenth book, Emerging Technologies: A Primer for Librarians (w/ Jennifer Koerber) was published in May 2015 and more books are on the way. In his spare time he blogs at travelinlibrarian.info, runs The Collector’s Guide to Dean Koontz Web site, takes many, many photos, and typically reads more than 100 books a year.
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Hi,
I just happened along your site. I have a great idea! I live on Grand Bahama Island in The Bahamas. I am assisting in Hurricane relief. We have been hit by 3 hurricanes in 12 months..the last Wilma. Several Settlements, Bahamian Village communities, had many homes washed out to sea as well as schools destroyed. We are in the process of trying to restore the schools and are looking for used books of all kinds. Even when the schools were in place, the libraries are of very poor quality due to lack of funding. If anyone would like to help, please email me at robbin@coralwave.com
Hi,
I just happened along your site. I have a great idea! I live on Grand Bahama Island in The Bahamas. I am assisting in Hurricane relief. We have been hit by 3 hurricanes in 12 months..the last Wilma. Several Settlements, Bahamian Village communities, had many homes washed out to sea as well as schools destroyed. We are in the process of trying to restore the schools and are looking for used books of all kinds. Even when the schools were in place, the libraries are of very poor quality due to lack of funding. If anyone would like to help, please email me at robbin@coralwave.com