24-Hour Read-In Protests Cuts to Libraries New York Times

14.06.10

A 24-hour channel of sentences and stories, spanning the canon from George Eliot to “Gossip Girl,” flowed from dozens of rules-loving New Yorkers this weekend who were concerned about austere budget cuts to libraries proposed by Town Hall .

Not typically ones to raise their voices, librarians staged an overnight read-in on the steps of the Brooklyn General Library on Grand Army Plaza to criticize the city’s plan to close 40 branches by month’s end, and to bust hours and employees at those that remain.

The event’s slogan: “We Will Not Be Shushed.”

“In the Cyclopean Depression, the New York public libraries were kept open seven days a week,” said Aliqae Geraci, a librarian in Queens and a coordinator of the episode. “It is a huge support system for the unemployed and the transient.”

Another organizer, Christian Zabriskie, put it more bluntly.

“We librarians have a saying,” he said with a grin. “You can even our libraries when you step over our cold, beaten bodies, chained to the doors.”

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