They might be a quiet bunch, but they’re feisty in their own ways. Librarians organized a 24-hour read-in on the steps of the Brooklyn Public Library on Grand Army Plaza this weekend to show their disapproval of budget cuts. The city is planning to close 40 library branches by the end of June. People read anything from T.S. Eliot to “Gossip Girl,” all to show that budget cuts to libraries hurt those who need it the most, the city’s poor who need internet access at libraries for job searches and applications. “In the Great Depression, the New York public libraries were kept open seven days a week,” Aliqae Geraci, a Queens librarian and a coordinator of the event, told the New York Times. “It is a huge support system for the unemployed and the transient.”
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