The Council of the District of Columbia has scheduled public hearings over the next three months to address the performance and budget requests for the District of Columbia Public Library System. These hearings are our chance to share our own concerns with the Council about both the performance and funding associated with our public libraries. [...]
The final schedule has been released for the “listening sessions” of the Mayor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Libraries. Everyone is encouraged to attend and rally their friends and neighbors to attend the sessions in their Ward. There are also two sessions planned at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library if there is not [...]
A new bill has been proposed in the DC Council that would expand the procurement authority of the DC Public Library. The “Board of Library Trustees Procurement Amendment Act of 2005 (B16-562)” would amend the Act originally passed in 1896 to increase the procurement authority of the Board of Library Trustees. The Act specifically allows [...]