This illustrates somewhat the attitude of skepticism that tends to grow among those who support library funding efforts.

    This photo was taken a few years ago in a legislator's Albany office as we listened to the usual refrain of "We love public libraries and we recognize their importance and we realize that they are underfunded, but . . . there is only so much money (in a "bumper" year); the money must go elsewhere (like to a stadium); which starving children do you want to deprive to get your funding? (as if that were the only choice that the state could make).

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