Don't Cut New York's Libraries

Don't Cut New York's Libraries Petition Comments by Senator

NAME	SENATOR	COMMENTS
Diana B. Stern	Bonacic	In Woodstock, we are busier than ever. Please help us preserve good library service.
Ann Sarrantonio	Bonacic	Please do not cut the hearts out of our communities by cutting library funding!
Nancy Graham	Bonacic	As we shift to a more sustainable economy based on human need and not corporate profit, our library system will be ever more essential to the health of the cultural commons and the development of an informed citizenry. Please vote for dollars for libraries.
Faith Johnson	Bonacic	Libraries should not be cut!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Karl Beard	Bonacic	We all understand that the State is in a terrible budget crunch, and that serious cuts must be made. But to many people, the local library is the only source for ESL training, educational resources for children, Internet access, and an essential part to their learning and job search. Cutting at the state level only shifts the burden to equally-strapped municipalities. Please limit state cuts to libraries.
Sondra Giordano	Bonacic	Please vote to help our libraries.
Leslie Pereira	Bonacic	As the distance between the haves and the have nots increases institutions like the public library are essential for people with limited financial resources to gain access to education and information so that we have a society with diverse participation.
Kevin Healy	Bonacic	Please help keep our libraries open.
Margaret Human	Bonacic	The need for public amenities rises during a depression.
Katie Cokinos	Bonacic	In times of economic downturn - a community needs its public library more than ever. Please think again about the cuts you are considering.
Shelley Wyant	Bonacic	Please do not cut the funding for our library, the heart of our community
Deborah Askue	Bonacic	The library system has been crucial for our whole family
Kathi Frank	Bonacic	I use my library in Stone Ridge on a weekly basis, I use inter library loans quite a bit also. Please help to fund libraries for all.
Nina Shengold	Bonacic	The free public library is one of the best ideas this country ever had. Keep our libraries funded!
Catherine Elliott	Bonacic	As my income has been cut and my taxes rise, I have been forced to cut luxuries such as the Internet. I have started to access the library again for the first time since I was a child.
Elaine M. Laflamme	Bonacic	The library in my hometown played an integral part in shaping me into the adult I am today. That institution allowed me to dream, roam the world and find answers to questions ranging from silly to sublime. Give our kids the same opportunity.
Stephanie Bassler	Bonacic	Libraries are reporting increased use of all kinds of library-based services. Now is NOT the time to cut funding for this vital community resource.
Susan Kahl	Bonacic	We need our libraries. They are crucial to the community.
Kaete Brittin Shaw	Bonacic	Our library provides a multitude of opportunities and services for all ages from preschool to the elderly. Without it there would be a huge hole in the heart of our community.
Kristin Flynn	Bonacic	I use our Stone Ridge, NY library every week. It is right in the heart of town and used every day by children, young adults, adults and seniors. It is a vital resource in our community. I am a teacher and often go to the public library for source material to use in my classes at the local community college.
Erica Freudenberger	Bonacic	At a time when library use is skyrocketing due to the economic downturn, it is counterproductive to cut library funding.
Leslie Pereira	Bonacic	Public libraries are the heart of our local communities. They are essential in helping all citizens have equal access to educational resources from books to journals to the Internet. If we are to have a rich society we must protect and preserve avenues of access for all citizens!!!
James Hoover	Bonacic	The library systems such as MHLS are so important to small libraries and the communities they serve.
John A Giralico	Bonacic	More than ever, with these difficult times, libraries offer so much to people and are such an integral part of the community.
Jordan Parker	Bonacic	I respectfully ask the Legislature not to cut funding for Libraries. They are a priceless treasure and resource in every community. Any funding that goes to them brings back a Windfall in benefits to each community in the form of education, culture, and the arts. I would like my tax dollars to support these activities gotten by use of the libraries. Thank you for your consideration. Jordan Parker High Falls, NY
Caroline Snyder	Bonacic	I think the Library IS an essential part of our community!
Tonia Champ-Doran	Bonacic	Economic boon or bust -- a visit to your local library leaves one feeling richer...
Linda Tantillo	Bonacic	As the economy weakens, the value and use of libraries increases, both to help people find jobs and other resources and to help them save money.
Jay Scott Morgan	Bonacic	Our libraries are our greatest resource for the smallest cost per taxpayer; to cut funding is to diminish opportunities for those who have the fewest personal means at their disposal, such as computers, the internet, money for books, magazines, newspapers. A truly self-defeating proposal.
Tara Dupont	Bonacic	Libraries are important to the community. Please do everything you can to avoid cutting necessary funding to our libraries. Thank you
Michelle Spark	Bonacic	Our small town library provides unparallel services for the community. Please do not cut $$ to the Library Systems.
Brian Millard	Bonacic	In difficult financial times, our libraries provide valuable resources to our communities which would otherwise be unavailable. This particularly hurts the poor, the working class, children, job-seekers, and those who self -educate. Now is a time to invest in our libraries, not to impoverish our communities. Our libraries do so much with so little, but how much could they do for all of us with just a little bit MORE (instead of less) .
Cathrine Shiga-Gattullo	Bonacic	The library is a vital part of our community.
Matthew Gattullo	Bonacic	We need the libraries for literacy, kid’s activities and almost limitless informational resources.
George Gattullo	Bonacic	Libraries serve as the town centers of today, a safe gathering place for older adults, teens, and stay-at-home moms.
Gary Hittmeyer	Bonacic	Libraries are important!
Anne A. Davis	Bonacic	Libraries are a significant community resource, available to all. Please continue your support.
Mary Ann Shepard	Bonacic	Save our Libraries!
NAME	SENATOR	COMMENTS
Jennifer Lee Fowler	Larkin	Please act now to protect these vital resources in our communities!
Teresa L. Genovese	Larkin	PLEASE DO NOT CUT FUNDING TO LIBRARIES!!!! They are at the heart of a democratic nation and America needs them more than ever. Help America and its citizens by providing support to our public libraries. No other country in the world has such a developed public library system-one of the things that makes our country so great. Thank you for your time and consideration; may you hear us loudly!
Allan Podell	Larkin	A society without libraries is an illiterate society. Illiterate societies cannot succeed.
Sheldon Zimbler	Larkin	Support our library- loss of funds will equate with lower school grades and additional crime- Like the auto commercial of AAMCO- do it now or it will cost us later!
Bruce Drake	Larkin	Please do what you can
Daniel Werbalowsky	Larkin	Cutting money for libraries is counterproductive and solves nothing.
Hadley Ordway	Larkin	We need our public libraries they are a big positive for the community. The library provides resources for people who would not have access to certain books and computers. The local public libraries also have activities for the community.
Gerald Lindo jr	Larkin	This library is an essential part of this community & the staff is most proficient. To cut funding would hinder the less fortunate & deny them educational opportunities, not provided on weekends & after school.
Zachary Spalding	Larkin	Some of my best memories growing up were my mother taking me to the Library. I just hope that the libraries will still be around and have the same great services for my new born son.
Dennis Davis	Larkin	Libraries are information tools. There must be other things we can live without besides reducing funding for the Mid Hudson Library System.
Sheila Caraway	Larkin	The Library is my place to go and explore new things. I bring my kids and inspire them to enjoy a life of reading as well.
Raymond Smith	Larkin	They should not do such a thing!!
Laurie Shedrick	Larkin	Please consider the added burden that libraries shoulder during difficult economic times and not cut the budget for library services.
Michelle Higgins	Larkin	I use the library every week as does my 12 year old, more than the Internet or any other source of information. Budget cuts to libraries are unnecessary and aimed at organizations that do not have the lobbyists to fight back. I am appalled at the actions of Governor Paterson, for whom I have such high regard.
Allen D. Ross, AIA, NCARB	Larkin	The public library system is one of the greatest achievements of our society, serving all equally, and adding value and integrity to our communities. I fully support the library system and oppose any funding cuts. Supporting the library system is at the top of my list of important issues for my elected representatives to address. Please contact me if you have any questions regarding my position.
Denise Orzo	Larkin	The library is a fantastic amenity for all people and helps to bridge the gap of education caused by economic privilege. All people should have access to information for learning and bettering oneself as well as for the leisure that can be enjoyed by the resources of the library system. When I enter the library, I feel the limits of possibility shed. My monetary income is irrelevant at the library. Public funds should be generously allocated to insure the citizens of our country have exposure to opportunity the library system provides. Please do not cut funding to the library. Thank You.
Louis Roper	Larkin	Cuts to libraries, medical care, and education are counter-productive.
Philip Gurrieri	Larkin	Sometimes I feel that our taxes should go into an escrow fund held up until our county sues the state & then the state must sue the federal government.......... Today we find our government responsible to the corporation & the corporation responsible to the PUBLIC: Elliot Spitzer, where are you; we truly need you as Federal Attorney General! We are in the midst of a corporate coupe! The non-funding of Libraries is akin to book burning!
Christine Wolcott	Larkin	Please keep funding for local libraries. Our library system is superb, one of the best in the country, and many thousands of people benefit greatly from its services. DO NOT CUT FUNDING FOR LIBRARIES WHEN THERE ARE MANY OTHER LESS IMPORTANT SERVICES THAT COULD BE REDUCED/ELIMINATED.
Debbie Fuoco	Larkin	The Ulster County Library and staff have been a huge help and resource during my job search due to the downsizing of the major corporation I previously worked for.
Renee Brotman	Larkin	The importance of our library cannot be underestimated. The library must be considered vital, just after the police and fire departments.
Franklin W. Desser	Larkin	ADD MONIES TO LIBRARIES NOT CUT !!!
Judith Oberheim	Larkin	Do Not cut funding to libraries. If you must make cuts.....start with State Employees Salaries and Benefits; just as the Profit World does!
Katalina Estrada	Larkin	Please save intelligence.
Roberta Forest	Larkin	Public library access is especially important in this time of shrinking economic resources.
Kimberly Whelan	Larkin	Please do not cut anymore aide to educational items. Our children are our future and schools, libraries and sports are vital to their overall growth.
Louise Pedrick	Larkin	Our libraries are treasures not to be discarded by the wayside. Education is so important and we need our community room events at the libraries more now than before. Please do not tax or cut funds for our much needed libraries. Thank you.
Michael Drummond	Larkin	This petition states that the proposed cut reduces funding to 1993 levels. Adjusting for inflation, the cut leaves less than half of that funding level.
NAME	SENATOR	COMMENTS
Lena Smolon	Leibell	Libraries are not a luxury.
Jean Ehnebuske	Leibell	Please support fair funding for libraries so they can maintain the vital services your constituents rely on.
P. Donald Haney	Leibell	Our libraries are becoming the "whipping boys" for all of the budget problems. Please do something to help us.
Lori Mozny	Leibell	Keep the libraries...They are a great place to go with my kids and learn all kinds of new and interesting stuff, If something should happen to the libraries, where are the kids going to go?
Mary Bowen	Leibell	Small town are dependent on help to keep them open, they offer several services for our community such as a senior citizens day and storytelling for our children. I have borrowed thousands of books from my library and I would be lost without as I am an avid reader.
Carol Phillips Ewin	Leibell	As an employee of a library, I can attest to increased usage during these difficult times. Our libraries are more important than ever for job seekers, families, and regular patrons. We understand the critical economic situation, but we have not had any increased funding since 1993 and cannot withstand any decrease without curbing our current hours, staff, programming and lending practices. Please hear our voice!
Maureen Mullaney	Leibell	Cutting the library funding is counterproductive and would have a tremendous negative impact on our community. Before any cuts are made, I urge you to carefully consider the harsh ramifications of your decision, and I strongly recommend you visit our library on any given day at any given time. You will find the majority of our community members utilize, and even depend upon, the library daily. At these difficult economic times, PLEASE do not cut funding to a library that provides programs and resources to those of us who otherwise could not afford them.
Judith Papo	Leibell	The libraries are vital to the health of our communities. Please keep their funding steady so they can continue to function at their current levels. Our library is more than just a loaning facility--it is a home for continuing education for all ages and a social center as well.
Maureen McGrath	Leibell	Libraries are more in demand than ever! Our programs at the Butterfield Library are filling to capacity and the library is packed everyday with circulation going through the roof! We need to offer these services especially in the current environment!
Marguerite Hill	Leibell	In these hard times, taxpayers need some relief. It seems everything around us is being cut and we have to make up the difference either monetary or giving up something.
Heidi Wolfe	Leibell	Our family regularly uses our library and its online services. Please do not cut their budget!!
Janet Cassidy	Leibell	People need libraries more than ever, to search for jobs, use the Internet, find tax info, etc.
Susan Kotzur	Leibell	Our library is being used by parents and their young children, senior persons and every age in the middle. A cut in library services of this magnitude at this time of financial upheaval would be a disservice to all the patrons. Thank you
Roseann Kelly	Leibell	Please give great consideration to keeping our library budget line uncut.......libraries need to be funded even more in times such as these......
Elizabeth Scigliano	Leibell	During a recession, library budgets must be increased not decreased. There has been a tremendous increase in circulation and in library use during the past year, and it will only increase. Please support the libraries we need so badly at this time.
Julie Sills	Leibell	At this time of financial difficulty, people need access to our public libraries now more than ever.
Paula Sims	Leibell	I love my library, and make donations. When I was unemployed and my son was a toddler, I depended on my library for the abundance of books and videos to enrich his preschool education. Libraries are also green- they recycle their products over and over and over! They are good for the earth.
Laurie Sarracco	Leibell	We use the library 2 times a week. Now that the economy is so bad it has gotten much busier!
Patricia Schlecht	Leibell	It is not the time to cut free public services that are tailored to all citizens and age groups!
NAME	SENATOR	COMMENTS
Nathaniel Smith	Saland	Libraries level the playing field across socioeconomic fault lines. They are indispensable for an informed citizenry.
Carol Gilbert Sacks	Saland	Good public libraries, like good public schools, are the foundation of democracy, because anyone can use them and learn and grow regardless of age, sex, nationality, socio-economic status, religion or anything else. Now more than ever, when so many people have so few resources, libraries must be supported fully.
Gabe Roy	Saland	I clearly understand the enormous stress on NYS due to the huge deficits. Libraries may seem non-critical, but in reality, they provide a very cost effective resource for folks who need to relax, learn, and improve their lives. Thank you.
Ann Baldwin	Saland	The Roe Jan Library is used significantly by disadvantaged people. They use the computers and research books much more than other people. To decrease the funding, would make it more difficult for these persons to look for jobs, find training programs and funding sources.
Karl Loatman	Saland	NYS Tax Dept. saves millions at the expense of local libraries telling everyone to get their forms off of computers at their public libraries. They got some nerve to shift the burden onto us! Karl Loatman, Trustee, LaGrange Association Library, Poughkeepsie, NY
Charlotte Shutts	Saland	We need lots of money for our new library!!Roeliff Jansen Community Library
Paul M. Lenci	Saland	Libraries are more important to people than ever in the current crisis. To cut funding would be tantamount to turning our backs on people when they need us the most. Please work hard to maintain all library funding.
Rosemarie Holsopple	Saland	The money for our Libraries are greatly needed. Libraries are not just for books anymore. We are important to the public!
Heather Dennis	Saland	I love our library. It would not be possible for my children to access so much information if it were not for this free service. We use the library for DVDs, books, and music constantly! Please do not limit this as we not only use it for education, but also as a tool to save money in this tumbling economy.
Matt Pfisterer	Saland	Please restore funding to NYS libraries. We take them for granted in prosperous economic times but we need them now more than ever.
Merribeth Advocate	Saland	Library Systems help individuals and communities save money by facilitating resource sharing. Flat funding doesn't take into account the growing demand for these cost saving services.
Sylvain Nagler	Saland	In a time of such national crisis, our public libraries stand out as a beacon for residents who need the kind of information that libraries are expert in providing. Please allow them to prosper and serve their communities. Sylvain Nagler
Arlene Christensen	Saland	Libraries need funding now!! Please reinstate the 18 million dollar cut in library aid.
Allison Withers	Saland	Cuts in library funding will have a profound effect on my life. The library keeps me connected in myriad ways.
Virginia Marcus	Saland	Libraries are a vital part of any community, and are more important than ever in these tough economic times. Please consider other options before reducing library funding.
Lindsey Oliva	Saland	Taking away educational resources for our children...what do you think is going to become of our future?
Elizabeth Devine	Saland	It is more important now than ever-- please do not vote for this HUGE Library cut.
Frances Macek	Saland	Please do not support the cut in library funding
John Cooley	Saland	I use the Mid Hudson Library System all the time for books and audiotapes. Please do not cut back on these vital services.
Sara Schepis	Saland	Libraries support communities!
Alison Abbruzzese	Saland	It is absolutely shameful that this can happen at a time where the economic downfall is hitting people who depend on the library for research, reading materials, and educational materials that are otherwise not part of a household budget these days. Why not try cutting your staff back or maybe use your personal car to get around rather than using taxpayers money for the car and the gas and possible the chauffeur.
Sue Osterhoudt	Saland	Please support our libraries and library system. In tough economic times their use soars. Thank you, Sue Osterhoudt
	Saland	The library is essential for an educated and informed public. Cut the budgets of the politically correct, but NON-EFFECTIVE, depts.
Susan Birchman	Saland	In this economy, I cannot even think of buying books or magazines. Please do not cut library funding and take away the one thing that gives me solace in these crazy times- my public library.
Audrey Willis	Saland	Please do your best to lessen these destructive cuts, in a time when "free" services are needed by the people of the state. Thank you for your consideration of this.
Dorrie Hillery	Saland	When times are hard it is downright foolish and stupid to cut funding for education and libraries. We will end up with a disadvantaged, unequipped work force and in deeper problems with less of a way out. Why not tax the most wealthy? Why not raise taxes on cigarettes and liquor? Why punish the elderly, the youth, and the literate?
Joan Kay	Saland	Libraries are needed now more than ever before! They are a source of valuable information for everyone from school children doing reports to consumers evaluating products to the unemployed looking for jobs. They provide entertainment for everyone from toddlers attending story times to adults participating in book discussion groups. There are no other places within our communities that provide so much to all at such little cost per capita.
Robert Ulrich	Saland	Please do all you can to keep the Mid-Hudson Library System intact! They are doing a great job and need all the support we can provide. Regards, Bob Ulrich
Amanda McAlpin	Saland	The library system in NY is a model of beneficial spending, providing positive alternatives to so much that is negative and readily available should libraries materials become less accessible. As a parent, I understand how important it is to provide public access to libraries for children as a balance for what the media and etc. has to offer. Reducing library funding seems like a step backwards for our society. Please reconsider this plan.
Thomas Tait III	Saland	I have been a card carrying member of the library since I was a child...We need to keep them going for generations to come...
Kay Abraham	Saland	Now more than ever libraries serve the population that is hardest pressed in the economic turndown.
Dacie Kershaw	Saland	The most important thing we need in times of financial crisis is our library.
Leslie Colburn	Saland	I could never afford to keep myself in books! I have used the library since I was 13 years old and this is an invaluable service they provide! Please don't take a penny away!
Lillian Moerschell	Saland	Although I have a computer, many people do not and need the library to use computers. I often borrow books.
Kevin Lippert	Saland	The Kinderhook Library is an extraordinary blessing to our community, the essential cultural nexus, and an important piece of architecture, I hope you will be able to preserve its place, collection, and services even in these difficult budgetary times.
Evelyn Barosin	Saland	Newspapers are closing. Many people do not have computers as a source for information. TV and radio selects what is considered news. or lacks the information required.
Laurie Duncan	Saland	What would the world be without libraries?
PAMELA WOLVEN	Saland	Libraries have already been cut and over the years waited for the increases that were approved. We have already been working with less and giving more and more. In these times libraries need to be there to serve the public. How would that young student have been able to contact the President without the library???
John Grover	Saland	The Kinderhook Library is one of the finest and most useful institutions in our community. And, the services that the Mid-Hudson Library System provides makes the local libraries much more effective. Cutting library funding is incredibly foolish.
Nancy N. Rogers	Saland	Our library is busier each day. People are looking for job information, books, CDs and DVDs. Many cannot spend what they formerly did on entertainment or educational materials. Please do not cut our budgets again.
Grace Haack	Saland	Please do not cut our library aid! Libraries are there for the people!
Judy Lee	Saland	I have been a librarian for over 30 years and oppose any more cuts to the Library budget. Libraries are more important than ever in this economic downturn and should have more funding -not less.
Kathleen Montross	Saland	Public libraries are the foundation of a democracy, providing the opportunity for all citizens to access books, newspapers, magazines and the Internet. Usage has increased during this difficult financial period, so it is unconscionable to consider cutting funding to the library now. I trust that I will see my state legislators effectively oppose the proposed cut to library funding.
Maria Lozada	Saland	An $18M cut in Library aid is unfair. So much is being eliminated in our lives - what are bureaucrats thinking?
Andrew Tokash	Saland	Libraries are a free resource to everyone in the community. Books provide education and entertainment. Libraries also provide free computer time. Do no cut funding!
Mary Anne Deik	Saland	Please keep libraries strong and growing and serving our communities!
William J. Joel	Saland	Libraries are a valued resource to our communities, now more than ever given the state of our fiscal affairs. Please help to re-instate funding to our libraries.
Sandra E. Bartlett	Saland	I see more and more people using the library as a place to find books, movies, information, and community. Especially in this time of economic crisis, the last thing that should be cut is funding for libraries.
Julie Kabat	Saland	As a frequent user of the library and a trustee of the North Chatham Free Library, I see on a daily basis how positive the role of the library is in educating and serving the public, building community, and fostering a sense of citizenship as well as a lifelong love of reading and books.
Brenda Adams	Saland	In these times the demand for library services is greater than ever; tax documents, free internet service for job searches, literacy programs, books, DVDs, and other materials and programs. Please restore the proposed budget cuts.
Cynthia Snyder	Saland	The more difficult the economy becomes, the greater the need for library services. People hit hardest by the downturn are the ones who will need it the most. This is not the time to cut expenditures by cutting the library budget.
Celia Bland	Saland	As the economy falls, we need libraries more often and for more basic services. Go to the local libraries and they are full of patrons, educating themselves in one way or another. Please find the money to keep them open and providing these necessary services.
	Saland	The Red Hook Library, to me, every time I use it, strikes me as a valuable use of Taxpayer money---especially the marvelous inter-library circulation system. How about cutting the top-heavy administration at our schools, or the overlapping layers of village, town, county, state departments of ...
Isabel Quinones	Saland	You should not do that. We love the libraries. We go there a lot.
Sabrina Tarantino	Saland	The library is too valuable a community resource to lose and that is just what would happen if the libraries had to start charging due to a cut back.
Bob Elmendorf	Saland	The unemployed need this resource, our children need it, our retirees need it.
Charles Cappillino	Saland	Being a new member of the library system, I would hate to see this community goal mine destroyed.
Janice Eisen	Saland	Libraries are an essential resource for families, children, elderly and anyone seeking information. The worse the economy is, the more we need education and information.
Chris DeRoller	Saland	Democracy functions well only with an informed public. Libraries are instrumental in providing objective information and resources to make this happen. I want my tax money going to libraries - not to campaign literature.
Erica Taylor	Saland	I love the Mid-Hudson Library system. It is one of our greatest resources and I would hate to see the Library diminished in any way. Instead I think they deserve more funding for all the great programs and resources they provide.
William A. Meier	Saland	In tough economic times money must be spent, not cut, in highly specific areas. This is one of them.
Pauline Herr	Saland	Both public and school libraries are imperative to the health and education of our communities.
Douglas Gerrity	Saland	Cut state spending in Albany not in the community.
Neal Tanner	Saland	The NYS Library system DOES NOT need a budget cut. They provide excellent services on a minimal enough budget as it is. If their budget is cut, it will simply force yet another local increase in property taxes, to maintain their services.
Brian Slocum	Saland	At a time when many people are strapped financially, outlets like libraries and parks are essential for the well being of the citizens both rich and poor. Please consider this in your decision making, Thank You
Andrew Makebish	Saland	I use the library all the time for my students. It is an amazing place and its inter-library loan system is outstanding. It is a place that is for the benefit and use of all and it is a sad reflection on our society if we neglect such a valuable institution.
Timothy Tulloch	Saland	Libraries operate on a shoestring now. Maintain current funding levels please!
Mark Hamrick	Saland	At this time when educating the future generation is utmost in importance, we should cut somewhere else. Libraries should be better funded!
Andrea Rich	Saland	The value of the library system is incalculable
John C Eisenhuth	Saland	Make the Governor promise to trim the State Budget and not the Library Budget.
Joan Scimeca	Saland	It is extremely important not to cut spending on libraries.
NAME	SENATOR	COMMENTS
Janie Greenwald	Seward	Funding the library is funding our future.
Carolyn	Seward	We LOOOOOOOOOOOOVE the library, especially in these tough financial times. It is so good to feel great about something our tax dollars fund!!! More libraries, less beauracracies!
Douglas G Berg	Seward	Everyone understands all too well the need for belt tightening, but targeting our libraries seems counterproductive. Please use your voice to shift the proposals to more forward thinking. Respectfully, Douglas G. Berg, Greenville
Kathy Turan	Seward	Our Library is a wonderful and very important resource for this community. We need to give them more resources NOT LESS!
Claudine Serazio-West	Seward	A Library is a very important part of any community. Now is not the time to cut the many services offered to children and adults by libraries in NYS. There is real wasteful spending out there-find that, and allow the library to continue to benefit our local families.
Cynthia Czarnecki	Seward	Public Libraries are the only resource for all. Now is not the time to limit vital information resources.
LEIGH ANN WAGOR	Seward	Please do not close especially the smaller libraries because that is the only way some people can have access to the internet or books.
Amanda Wolfson	Seward	We love our library! It is the center of our community.
Dennis A. Murphy	Seward	The Public Library is an invaluable resource for the community and should not be short changed.
Pamela Marks	Seward	My family uses the library every week. As the economy is making it hard to purchase books we are using the library much more. I have a family of 8 people and we all love to read .Please do not cut funding.
June Bain	Seward	Libraries are struggling but it will take more than shortages of money to make us quit. Do not cut the budget.
Janie Greenwald	Seward	The library system is one of the building blocks of democracy. It is the ONLY institution that helps to level the playing field for all.
Jayne Cosh	Seward	This is so not fair! I’m only 12 but I love to read and can't always afford books! My library means a lot to me.
Sheila Brady	Seward	Please, take the time to recognize the importance of the library to the citizens in each of the communities you represent. It is one way to insure access to books and resources to all age levels.
Robert Auger	Seward	People who do not have any money need libraries. Also those people who do not have computers.
Adam Davis	Seward	Help our libraries, please.
Sarah	Seward	Save the library! They are a great resource!!
Laura Sodders	Seward	The library is an integral part of my life as a resource, in print, multimedia and online. Its cost, shared with the local community, is repaid many times over with the services provided by the librarians. They are truly dedicated to their jobs and their communities.
Pamela Phillips-Malcolm	Seward	Our democracy has been eviscerated by corporate greed and lobbyists. Public libraries are one of the few vestiges of democracy in this county and are needed more now than ever -- please do not allow them to be penalized by our social and economic failures