Over the past year, the budget ax has hit many of North America’s special, corporate, foundation, professional and government agency libraries hard. While many of these libraries are seeing funding stabilize, they are still ...

The economy may be healing, and more funds are flowing to North America’s public libraries. However, libraries continue to feel the sting of cutbacks and budget shortfalls. In addition, the historic shift to digital libraries ...

Public libraries—which rely on funding from cash-strapped local municipalities or counties—have been particularly susceptible to the recent economic downturn. Many have been forced to cut offerings and freeze staff salaries ...