Library Advocates Urge Hochul to Reverse Over $11 Million in Library Funding Cuts

At your local library, you’ll find lots of books – but you may also find tax preparers, museum passes, and yoga classes. But library advocates say the services they provide are at risk under New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s latest budget.The state budget proposes more than $11 million in cuts to the state’s library operating aid and construction budget. Advocates say this follows a rocky year of federal funding threats from the Trump administration to thousands of public libraries. Radio Catskill’s Kimberly Izar reports.