Libraries and the Recession - Articles in the NY Times
Submitted by SAC Allen on Thu, 2009-04-02 08:24.
Two recent NY Times articles on how the economic downturn has had a direct impact on library use.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/nyregion/26libraries.html
It Has Computers, Gives Advice and Is Free
By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN
Published: March 26, 2009
Out-of-work professionals are crowding the computers at New York’s public libraries, and books on résumé writing are hard to keep on the shelves.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/us/02library.html
Downturn Puts New Stresses on Libraries
By SUSAN SAULNY and KAREN ANN CULLOTTA
Published: April 2, 2009
Anxious, depressed patrons who have nowhere else to go are turning some libraries into emotional hotbeds.


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