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10/15/2011

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…pays for about 1/10th of one second of advertising in the Super Bowl this year.

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…pays for 1.5 seconds of the US’s involvement in Afghanistan.

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That’s my budget for library media for this entire school year.

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That includes all audio-visual materials, books, magazines/ periodicals/newspapers, maps/globes, tapes, microfilms, and computer software for use in the library.

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That’s $6.25 per student enrolled in the school last October.

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That $6.25 per student rate was set by the NY State legislature in 1999.

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US total inflation from June 2000, to June 2011 is 30.93% according to inflationdata.com

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Inflation in the rate budgeted per student 0%

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“Most school libraries managed to escape the economic trials of 2010 largely unscathed––with the exception of those in high-poverty areas, which saw significant declines in spending on information resources and in collection size.”
—American Library Association report on the State of American Libraries.

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My school is in the poorest Congressional district in the nation.

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Perhaps I should be grateful that my budget has not gone down.

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I’m not.