the destruction of fairfax county's libraries

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1 Fairfax County Steps up War on Public Libraries This is an op-ed from Terry Maynard of the Reston 2020 Committee of the Reston Citizens Association. Fairfax County’s decade-long war to dismantle our public library sys tem has r eached new depths: First, the County is planning a partial closure of its Sherwood Regional Library in Alexandria beginning in January. Second, the Board of Supervisors is pursuing an audit of the “Friends of the Library,” which has occasionally and diplomaticall y criticized the Board’s overs ight of the Cou nty publ ic libr ary syst em. The move to close the second floor of the Sher wood Regional Libra ry for all but 20 hours per week because of budget cuts is only the l atest insult to the people of the County wh o have seen t heir Coun ty library budget cut by more than 20% as overall County spending has increased by 15% in the last ten years. Since FY2007 , spending on our libraries has decl ined by 22% while overall County spending has increased by 15%.

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