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Library board warns cuts to reference materials will slow access; trustees and student capstone highlight community programs
Summary
Library trustees urged restoring a roughly $23,000 reduction to reference and children's materials; staff described program cuts and a shared half-time business resource reallocation, while a high school intern presented a capstone review showing strong demand and community value for library programs.
Members of the public, library trustees and staff used the Selectmen's Feb. 28 budget review to press the board to restore cuts to the library materials budget and to explain program impacts.
Mary Anne O'Neill (public speaker) described the materials request as $23,107 in total (about $0.94 per capita using a cited town population figure) and asked the board to restore funds for adult and children's reference collections. Holly Macbeth, chair of the library…
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