Friends of the library fear that the allocation now proposed in Birmingham Mayor Randall Woodfin’s 2023 budget could eventually erode additional services in a system that has already closed one library and has others running on limited hours.
Facing city funding levels at the lowest point since Randall Woodfin became mayor, Birmingham public libraries plan to continue current operations, said Birmingham Public Library Executive Director Janine Langston.
“Having worked in a library for more than two years now, through COVID and seeing how people need these services desperately and how you can’t replicate those services elsewhere, it concerns me that people who don’t use those services and don’t need them are here making decisions about how much they need,” said Save Birmingham Public Libraries founder Alice Speake at the final public budget hearing of Birmingham City Council on June 16.
Recently the Birmingham Public Library system closed its East Lake branch temporarily and its Ensley branch permanently. According to 2021 reports from the Jefferson County Library Cooperative, a separate entity from the Birmingham Public Library system that shares lending services, these two branches combined loaned more than 1,500 items last year. Out of Birmingham public libraries’ 16 remaining branches, three now operate under limited hours.
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