Mayor Bloomberg defunded New York libraries at a time of increasing public use, population growth and increased city wealth, shrinking our library system to create real estate deals for wealthy real estate developers at a time of cutbacks in education and escalating disparitiesin opportunity. It’s an unjust and shortsighted plan that will ultimately hurt New York City’s economy and competitiveness.
It should NOT be adopted by those we have now elected to pursue better policies.
This cartoon
by Mark Hurwitt has been a favorite for people to complain about,
including a complaint from at least one trustee on the board of one of
the libraries who works for one of the city's biggest real estate
companies. The complaint is about the "tone" of CDL's message.
Mark Hurwitt say that, professionally speaking, cartoonists consider
such complaints a true measure of the success of what they have
accomplished.
Citizens Defending Libraries is making a all sorts of videos available on its Citizens Defending Libraries YouTube Channel. Selected videos from that channel can also be found here in this video page.
Only Citizens Defending Libraries’s own videos (that it has itself put on the web) are on its YouTube Channel. Videos produced by others or links to them can be found here. The best viewing of the videos can be had by going to the YouTube Channel, YouTube, or site where they are hosted.
At the end of this page you will find videos pertaining to positions of elected officials and candidates for office about the sale of libraries and shrinkage of the system as well as treating the mayor's underfunding of libraries as an excuse for doing so.
Citizens Defending Libraries' Carolyn McIntyre testifying about a BPL
representative informing people that shelves in the Brooklyn heights
Library Children's section were "fully stocked and overflowing" while the photo she held up in poster form (see also below) showed that was clearly NOT the case
Culture Chair Jimmy Van Bramer tweeted, during the hearing, this photo of what it looked like from his vantage saying "No surprise to see packed house."
City Council Member Laurie Cumbo asking about library board members and
their conflicts of interest at hearing about the NYC Department of
Design and Construction's role in overseeing library construction,
renovation and costs
CDL's Michael D. D. White on right- one of many panelist delivering testimony against library sell-offs at March 11th hearing. No one, except two of the library heads testified in favor of such sales
September 3oth, years after the 2007 sell-off of Donnell, the City Council holds its first hearing on the sell-off of NYY's public libraries and finds the public is opposed. Chair of the committee, Jimmy Van Bramer, center
Until this March 8th hearing City Council Cultural Committee Chair Jimmy Van Bramer overseeing libraries hadn't encountered Citizens Defending Libraries and the upsurge of opposition to sale of libraries as breaking headlines started unveiling facts
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