The Brooklyn Daily Eagle’s Phoebe Neidl that the Brooklyn Public Library is facing steep cuts in city funding for the upcoming fiscal year:

If the mayor’s proposed executive budget is adopted, it will represent an almost 20 percent reduction in BPL’s overall budget of $100 million. This would translate into lay-offs of approximately 175 staff members, which is one out of every six full-time employees, says BPL’s Marketing and Communications Director Stephanie Arck.

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