Close the library for a 16-month renovation and lay off 200 employees? Fuhgeddaboudit!

Library rethinks closing for renovations. (New York Newsday, 7/26/2011)

Excerpt:    After a raucous meeting Monday night packed with irate residents, the Mastics-Moriches-Shirley Community Library's board of trustees said it might back off plans to close the library this fall for a 16-month renovation and lay off most of the library's 200 employees.

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