Following a week of back-and-forth over library funding during which city of Pensacola Administrator Bill Reynolds equated recent positions taken by Escambia County as “extortion,†county commissioners unloaded this morning, connecting the…
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Library Letters in ‘Chinatown’
The library system was a topic of discussion last time the Escambia County Commission met, and chances are it will be tomorrow as well. While it’s not on the commission’s Committee of…
Making Sausage in the Library
Faced with a nearly $10 million budget shortfall, Escambia County commissioners today considered pulling funding—totaling $3.7 million—from the West Florida Library System. A few hundred library supporters dressed in red attending this…
Libraries Spared
After nearly three hours of discussion this morning supporter of the West Florida Library System have reason to celebrate. Quietly. “We are left cautiously optimistic,†Bette Hooten, president of the library system’s…
Library ‘Crisis’
According to Bette Hooten, president of the West Florida Library System, the regional collection of libraries are in “crisis mode.†“I cannot tell you how frightened I am for this system,†she…