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closing down salinas Post date  01.03.2005, 3:05 PM

posted by ben vershbow

SLibrary.jpg The 150,000 citizens of Salinas, California will soon be without a single public library - a drastic measure taken by the city to solve a drastic budget crisis. After a pair of last-minute ballot measures failed to win funds for the city's embattled libraries, the doors will soon close on what is for many curious minds, the only resource in town.

Is the local community library going extinct? (image: John Steinbeck Library, Salinas)

Posted by ben vershbow on January 3, 2005 3:05 PM
tags: Libraries, Search and the Web

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