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	<title>Friends of South End Library &#187; Save our Libraries</title>
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		<title>As James Carroll Leaves the Library&#8217;s Board, City Councillors Have the Chance to Influence the Mayor&#8217;s Next Nomination&#8230;But Will They?</title>
		<link>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2011/05/as-james-carroll-leaves-the-librarys-board-city-councillors-have-the-chance-to-influence-the-mayors-next-nomination-but-will-they/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 May 2011 20:32:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BPL trustee and Boston Globe columnist James Carroll has resigned from the Library&#8217;s Board after eleven years. The announcement was made this week at the BPL&#8217;s Annual Meeting at Copley Library. Carroll&#8217;s resignation opens the door for Boston city councillors to initiate a public vetting process of new BPL trustees. Currently, Boston&#8217;s mayor nominates each new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On an Upward Swing, Library Board Trustees Meet for Strategic Planning Session and Hire a New (and Experienced) Director for its Foundation</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2011 01:59:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The upward swing at the Boston Public Library is continuing apace with the recent hiring of David McKay, an experienced fundraiser to head the anemic Boston Public Library Foundation, and the brainstorming at the committee level of a group of trustees and library luminaries about how to make the BPL &#8220;better than anyone,&#8221; as trustee [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library Board Trustees Byron Rushing and Paul LaCamera Laying the Groundwork for a BPL Overhaul and Future Fundraising Campaign</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Mar 2011 17:42:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After more than a year&#8217;s effort to counter public anger over threatened library closures and cutbacks, two of the newer appointments to the Library Board, State Representative Byrton Rushing and former WBUR General Manager Paul LaCamera, have begun laying the groundwork for a major library overhaul and the restructuring of the fundraising arm for the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BPL Trustees to Hold Bi-Monthly Meeting, Tuesday, March 8 at Charlestown Branch, 3 PM, With Officially Scheduled Period of Public Comment on its Agenda</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:40:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The trustees of the BPL are meeting tomorrow at 3 PM in a regularly scheduled bi-monthly meeting. Agenda items of interest are updates on budget discussions and strategic planning, as well as a newly added period of public comment. Until now, public comment was allowed only by special permission of the BPL trustees&#8217; chair or, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South End Library To Host City Council&#8217;s District 7 Candidates&#8217; Debate Between Tito Jackson and Cornell Mills, Thursday, March 10, 6:30 PM</title>
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		<comments>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2011/03/south-end-library-to-host-city-councils-district-7-candidates-debate-between-tito-jackson-and-cornell-mills-thursday-march-10-630-pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:04:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two top vote getters from last month&#8217;s special election primary  will make their case to South End voters on Thursday night, March 10,  at the South End Library. Sponsored by the Rutland Square Association and the Friends of the South End Library, the library will host candidates Cornell Mills and Tito Jackson , who will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Library Advocates Criticize BPL Trustees For Their Lack of Private Fundraising, Call for Any Reductions in Service or Hours to be Applied Equitably Across All Libraries, Including Copley</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 21:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At last week’s Special Trustees Meeting, BPL president Amy Ryan proposed a FY2012 budget that wasn’t all that bad. That is, compared with the previous two years, when the budget was reduced from $48 million to $40 million. This year, there’s a mere $580,ooo shortfall in a budget of about $39.3 million. Uncertainties can become [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BPL Trustees to Hold a Special Meeting Copley Library to Discuss FY2012 Budget</title>
		<link>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2011/02/bpl-trustees-to-hold-a-special-meeting-copley-library-to-discuss-fy2012-budget/</link>
		<comments>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2011/02/bpl-trustees-to-hold-a-special-meeting-copley-library-to-discuss-fy2012-budget/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 20:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BPL trustees will hold a Special Meeting Thursday, February 24 at 8:30 AM at the Copley Library to discuss the FY2012 library budget. While budget numbers are usually known at this point in the fiscal budget cycle, this is not the case today. Although Meredith Weenick, the city&#8217;s former associate director for administration and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>South End Library to Host Special Election Debate With District 7 City Council Candidates Tito Jackson and Cornell Mills, Thursday, March 10</title>
		<link>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2011/02/south-end-library-to-host-special-election-debate-with-district-7-city-council-candidates-tito-jackson-and-cornell-mills-thursday-march-10/</link>
		<comments>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2011/02/south-end-library-to-host-special-election-debate-with-district-7-city-council-candidates-tito-jackson-and-cornell-mills-thursday-march-10/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 19:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The two District 7 city council candidates who garnered the most votes in the recent primary to fill the seat of former City Councilor Chuck Turner have agreed to a debate at the South End Library on Thursday, March 10 at 6:30 PM. Tito Jackson and Cornell Mills will each present brief opening statements, after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston&#8217;s Library Friends Groups Are Preparing to Counter the Next Budget Assault on BPL, Insisting Trustees Raise Funds to Stabilize Library System, Distribute Any Cuts Equitably</title>
		<link>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2011/02/bostons-library-friends-groups-are-preparing-to-counter-the-next-budget-assault-on-bpl-insisting-trustees-raise-funds-to-stabilize-library-system-distribute-any-cuts-equitably/</link>
		<comments>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2011/02/bostons-library-friends-groups-are-preparing-to-counter-the-next-budget-assault-on-bpl-insisting-trustees-raise-funds-to-stabilize-library-system-distribute-any-cuts-equitably/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Feb 2011 21:35:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What a difference a year can make! Before February 2010, Boston&#8217;s library Friends groups rarely saw one another, except at City Council budget hearings where a few of the most vocal Friends tinkered at the edges of the library budget by pleading for lesser cuts, higher appropriations or new capital funds to rebuild their libraries. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boston Globe Editorial Page Suggests MFA&#8217;s Private Fundraising Could Be a Blueprint for Civic Rejuvenation of the Public Library</title>
		<link>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2010/11/boston-globe-editorial-page-suggests-mfas-private-fundraising-could-be-a-blueprint-for-civic-rejuvenation-of-the-public-library/</link>
		<comments>http://www.friendsofsouthendlibrary.org/2010/11/boston-globe-editorial-page-suggests-mfas-private-fundraising-could-be-a-blueprint-for-civic-rejuvenation-of-the-public-library/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 04:53:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>marleen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An editorial in Saturday&#8217;s Boston Globe proposed that the funding strategy for the expansion of the Museum of Fine Art&#8217;s exhilarating new wing could be the blueprint for rejuvenating other major civic institutions, including the Boston Public Library. More than 25,000 people contributed to the $504 million raised for the MFA, the Globe reported, replicating the [...]]]></description>
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