MUNCIE [Indiana] – When the Local History and Genealogy Center closes this summer, Muncie Public Library hopes to rent the downtown building, the newest of all the Muncie library facilities.
The center – at 210 S. Jefferson St., just behind the Carnegie Library — was built in 2003 at a cost of about $900,000 and includes about 7,000 square feet.
But it will close this summer, as budget cuts have forced the library board to close both the center and Conley Library. A third library, Carnegie, is moving its regular collection off site, and also could close in 2010. Loss of funding is cited as the reason for the closings; property tax caps have cut $1.8 million from the library’s budget this year and next.
As long as Carnegie remains open, it will house a computer lab and the history and genealogy materials moved from next door.
Read more about it in the full article by Joy Leiker in the March 27, 2009 edition of the Star Press.
