Link to July 30 Florida Times-Union article, "Library Foundation cancels Much Ado About Books".
Excerpt: After 15 years of bringing world-renowned authors to Jacksonville, the annual Much Ado About Books has fallen victim to a shortage of money and will not happen in 2011.
Maggie Hightower, executive director of the Library Foundation, said her group’s signature event will take at least a one-year break.
“The foundation is undergoing a strategic plan to reassess where our priorities need to be,” she said. “We are working with the library and the changing shape of the community.
“We need to reassess how we can raise private funding.”
The event saw a financial falloff in 2009, according to the most recent documents the foundation filed with the IRS. That year, excluding employee salaries, the event brought in $18,426, much less than the $121,060 it made in 2008.
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