New year, new decade.. Sounds almost optimistic. The changes that we've undergone in our country, our libraries, and our profession over the past decade or so have been challenging enough, but they've also been exhilarating; for the past year or two, "challenging" has predominated. You can read the three "Library Budgets 2010" feature articles in this January issue as a confirmation of the damage done by the Great Recession-or you can see them, as many librarians who speak in these articles do, as an unprecedented opportunity to remind people what the library can do for them personally and the many ways it is integral to the life of their communities. As Cheryl Sheehan of San Antonio PL told LJ contributor Charles London, "The crisis is bringing people back who haven't been [here] since childhood (p. 41)." And that's a good thing.
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