From the Editor: Are Libraries Getting Their Fair Shore of the Federal Budget?

Abstract

As I grow older and hopefully wiser, I have begun to question whether libraries are now or ever have been getting their fair share of the federal budget.  Astounding as it may sound, the United States was 180 years old, just twenty years away from its Bicentennial, before the U.S. Congress passed the first law establishing federal funds for libraries in 1956.