Reading Into Library Cuts
It is ironic that the Oxnard City Council chose National Library Week to announce severe cuts in library services. The main Oxnard Public Library circulates 500,000 books each year, compared to 65,000 circulated by the branch in south Oxnard. Why are they being treated the same, with both slated to close an additional day each week? Wouldn’t the people of Oxnard be better served with the main library open more than the branch?
The Friends of the Oxnard Library urges all library patrons and community members who value lifelong learning, access to information, and the wonderful pleasure of reading to ask our City Council to seek more creative ways to maintain our library services.
FELICITY A. HARPER
President
Oxnard Friends of the Library
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