From The Advocate:
Ohio library officials learned Monday that they were spared the 30 percent budget cut proposed by Gov. Ted Strickland, but the biennial budget passed Monday by the Ohio Legislature nevertheless contained more bad news for the state’s 251 libraries.
The Associated Press reported Monday that the new Ohio budget reduces library funding by $84 million — about 11 percent — over the next two years, instead of the $227 million the governor proposed.