Patrons picket to save Detroit library branch. (Detroit News, 9/9/2011)
Excerpt: Users of the Detroit Public Library's Chase branch held a daylong protest Thursday in hopes of saving what they say is the heart of their neighborhood.
"You are just taking a crippling situation and cutting off another leg," said Pat Pernell-Shelton, a nearby resident who marched outside the northwest Detroit branch with a sign reading, "Save our library." "It just breaks my heart.
"These kids are used to walking to this library. They are on foot, they aren't being dropped off."
The branch, on Seven Mile near the Southfield Freeway, is one of six slated to close under a proposal by Detroit Public Library administrators, who say layoffs in March have stretched the staff too thin. But the plan comes three months after officials abandoned plans that would have closed as many as 18 branches. The six branches were targeted based on several factors, including building condition, usage and neighborhood population.
The library's board of commissioners is expected to vote on the plan by the end of September.
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