City of Omaha Looking at $11 Mil in 2010 Budget Cuts

W. Dale Clark (Main) Library

Link to July 12 Omaha World-Herald article, "Pain seen in budget cuts".

Excerpt: Library: $8.6 million. (2009 allocation from City of Omaha.)

Possible cuts include closing branches, reducing hours or spending less on new materials. The materials budget has remained the same since 2001, about $1.6 million.

In 2004, a proposal to close the Swanson Library would have saved $500,000. Earlier this summer, the city said it could save $1 million by closing three branches.

According to the Nebraska Library Commission's 2007-2008 annual report, the Omaha Public Library also received approximately $1.5 million from Douglas County. I suspect the county is feeling some pain, too.