Open AccessFrom the Editor: Are Libraries Getting Their Fair Shore of the Federal Budget?
Author(s) -
Jennifer Jones
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
north carolina libraries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2379-4305
pISSN - 0029-2540
DOI - 10.3776/ncl.v61i3.165
Subject(s) - federal budget , fair share , shore , political science , federal funds , public administration , business , law , sociology , economics , law and economics , monetary policy , oceanography , fiscal year , monetary economics , geology
As I grow older and hopefully wiser, I have begun to question whether libraries are now or ever have been getting their fair share of the federal budget. Astounding as it may sound, the United States was 180 years old, just twenty years away from its Bicentennial, before the U.S. Congress passed the first law establishing federal funds for libraries in 1956.