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Library director touts rising circulation as Finance Committee approves library budget

2987181 · April 15, 2025
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Library Director Noel Buck presented a modest FY26 request focused on salary obligations, membership fees and continued program growth; the Finance Committee moved the library budget with an aye vote.

Noel Buck, director of the Danvers public library, told the Finance Committee the library’s FY26 request is modest and driven primarily by personnel obligations and rising consortium fees while the library continues to show growing circulation and community programs.

"We don't ask for much, but we do a lot with what we have," Noel Buck said, summarizing the library’s approach to programming and services. Buck told the committee circulation has…

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