Here are cuts to library resources that were already made LAST year, after those budget cuts in which the libraries were cut to the bone. Or what we thought was the bone:
Academic OneFile - Temporarily unavailable due to budget cuts.
America the Beautiful - No longer available as of 7/1/2010, due to library budget cuts
Baltimore Sun - No longer available as of August 2010, due to library budget cuts.
ConsumerReports.org - Discontinued due to budget cuts.
CQ Global Researcher - No longer available as of October 2010, due to library budget cuts.
CQ Researcher - No longer available as of October 2010, due to library budget cuts.
Encyclopedia Americana - No longer available as of 7/1/2010, due to library budget cuts.
Facts.com World News Digest - No longer available, as of May 1, 2010, due to budget cuts.
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia - No longer available as of 7/1/2010, due to library budget cuts.
Health Reference Center Academic - No longer available as of August 2010, due to library budget cuts.
Historical Newspapers Extra Edition - Temporarily unavailable, due to budget cuts.
Issues and Controversies - No longer available, as of May 1, 2010, due to budget cuts.
Lands and Peoples - No longer available as of 7/1/2010, due to library budget cuts.
New Book of Knowledge - No longer available as of 7/1/2010, due to library budget cuts.
New Book of Popular Science - No longer available as of 7/1/2010, due to library budget cuts.
Tell Me More - Tell Me More is no longer available, due to library budget cuts.
Today's Science - No longer available, as of May 1, 2010, due to budget cuts.
And this year? Michael Laris’ article in The Washington Post tells some of the story. In his article he writes that "Spending on libraries has dropped by more than a quarter since 2008 - from $40 million to $29 million - and the materials budget has been lopped in half, to $3 million."
Laris writes,
"In Bethesda, shrinking spending means not renewing a bipartisan and demographically diverse list of periodicals next year. The Nation and Weekly Standard are out. Car and Driver? Town and Country? Gone. Also among the titles to be discontinued: Runner's World and Bicycling, Entrepreneur and Fast Company, Nature and the Journal of the American Medical Association.
In Damascus, it has meant scaling way back on efforts to help babies, toddlers and preschoolers - and their parents and caregivers - get ready for early reading. The branch organized 124 early reading programs during the last fiscal year, and attendance topped 4,000. But in the first half of this fiscal year, about 800 participants squeezed into just 13 such programs.
The cuts also have meant earlier closing times."
