To the editor: Thanks for prominently that includes the termination of federal monies to libraries on the entrance web page of your California part (“California libraries dropping thousands and thousands in funding after Trump terminates federal grant,” April 4). Though not as far-reaching, maybe, as cuts to USAID or the U.S. Division of Schooling, the elimination of Library Providers and Know-how Act grant funds will influence library providers to 1000’s of individuals all through California.
I’m retired now, however for 10 years labored for the California State Library, which distributes federal library funds statewide. I administered and monitored many LSTA grants and assessed their constructive outcomes. I noticed 1000’s of younger individuals profit from the state’s after-school homework assist applications, in addition to its extremely efficient summer time studying program. I used to be additionally proud that the library helped veterans constructively have interaction with their communities. California wants its libraries and the LSTA funds that help them.
Cindy Mediavilla, Culver Metropolis
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To the editor: The Trump administration has simply terminated the $15.7-million California State Library grant, which benefited little one literacy, studying applications for veterans and work-readiness applications. To place this in perspective, Trump goes to Florida on many weekends to play golf, costing taxpayers thousands and thousands every time, in keeping with The Guardian. In different plain English phrases, “Do as I say, not as I do.”
Marty Foster, Ventura
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To the editor: It ought to come as no nice shock that the Trump administration is reducing funds to libraries. President Trump and his MAGA bros don’t need individuals to learn, or to suppose, or to ask questions, or to study people completely different from themselves, or to develop empathy for others, or to dream of a greater world — one through which all persons are valued and revered — and what’s essential to realize that. The place can all of this occur? In a library!
Sandy Schuckett, Los Angeles
