Friday, August 17, 2018

From Falls Church News-Press: County Treats Library Friends More Like Enemies

Falls Church News-Press opinion piece from Charles Keener as county prepares to evict Library Friends.



In Fairfax County, Public Library Friends are groups of volunteers who raise funds for or provide other support to their specific library branch as well as to the library system as a whole.

Collectively, library Friends donate hundreds of thousands of dollars and many thousands of volunteer hours every year to Fairfax County Public Library.
Yet, in the coming weeks, Fairfax County plans to evict some of these very same library Friends groups from the library branches they have served faithfully for decades.

Please see link to read entire article.

https://fcnp.com/2018/08/16/guest-commentary-fairfax-co-treats-library-friends-like-enemies/