Boston UNITE! to save our libraries

Mayor Menino’s budget for the city leaves the Boston Public Library short $3.6 million dollars. The Boston Public Library Trustees, under the executive direction of President Amy Ryan, voted March 24 to protect certain branches from closing:

1. Brighton
2. Central Library (Copley Square)
3. Codman Square
4. Dudley
5. Grove Hall
6. Honan-Allston
7. Hyde Park
8. Mattapanand
9. West Roxbury

In April the BPL Board plans to vote on which of the following BPL libraries will be closed. The will close up to eight (8).

1. Adams Street
2. Charlestown
3. Connolly
4. Dudley Literacy Center
5. East Boston
6. Egleston Square
7. Faneuil
8. Fields Corner
9. Jamaica Plain
10. Lower Mills
11. North End
12. Orient Heights
13. Parker Hill
14. Roslindale
15. South Boston
16. South End
17. Uphams Corner
18. Washington Village
19. West End

Don’t let is happen. Write the mayor, BPL President Amy Ryan, and Chair of the Board of Trustees Jeffrey Rudman and ask that full funding be budgeted and that no branches be closed. Here is their contact information.

Mayor Menino, [email protected]
BPL President Amy Ryan, [email protected]
Mr. Jeffrey Rudman, Esq., Chair of the BPL Board of Trustees, [email protected]