HARTFORD, Conn. – Librarians are generally a quiet bunch, but they’re making a lot of noise to help restore funding for a program that was ahead of its time.
Librarians from across the state rallied Wednesday at the state Capitol to ask the General Assembly to restore $1 million in funding for Connecticard — a program that reimburses local libraries for loaning books to out-of-towners.
The program was instituted in 1976.
“I’m mad that after almost 40 years of extreme cooperation over the borders of 169 towns, our governor’s budget throws away the simple elements of equal access to learning,” Maxine Bleiweis, executive director of the Westport Library, said. “. . . I’m mad that we’ll be wasting far more taxpayer money than we’ll ever save if we don’t have a way to borrow over our borders.”
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