University Library News Release
Date: October 10, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jeanette Smith, NMSU Library, (575) 646-7492, jcsmith@lib.nmsu.edu
Open Letter to New Mexico Citizens
October 10, 2008
Dear New Mexico Citizens:
The New Mexico State University Library, as well as publicly funded libraries throughout the state, will benefit from passage of GO Bond B on the November 4 ballot.
Bond B proposes a total of $11 million in funding for publicly funded academic, public, school and tribal libraries in New Mexico. $3 million in funding is requested for each of three groups of publicly funded libraries: academic libraries, school libraries and public libraries. $2 million is requested for tribal libraries.
Libraries at NMSU-Las Cruces, Alamogordo, Carlsbad, Grants and Dona Ana will all benefit from Bond B. If passed, it will enable publicly funded libraries to support students and faculty by updating book and journal collections and subscribing to information databases.
If approved, the $11 million bond issue will cost taxpayers 77 cents per $100,000 of their assessed property value. More information about Bond B funding is presented at http://www.bondsforlibraries.org.
Bond B has been endorsed by the New Mexico Library Association, the New Mexico Consortium of Academic Libraries, the New Mexico Municipal League and the New Mexico Task Force for School Libraries.
Libraries change the lives of New Mexicans of all ages. In good times and bad, libraries provide the information people need when they need it. Bond B will help New Mexico's libraries succeed in this effort. I urge citizens to vote in this important election.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth A. Titus, Ph. D.
Dean of the New Mexico State University Library
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