Tnl-News.com - Governor's proposed budget cuts affect local libraries as their usage increases

"It has been a tough day." That is how Carroll County District Library Director Robert Antill described Monday after Governor Ted Strickland proposed Friday afternoon to "drastically cut" the Ohio Public Libraries' budgets. Antill and Minerva Public Library Director Tom Dillie are trying to grasp the ramifications these cuts will have for their budgets and, in turn, to the services they provide to the public.

Antill believes one of the reasons residents use the library's Internet access so much is because they have dial-up Internet access. He noted the library is working with the Connect Ohio project, which is the governor's initiative to launch Broadband throughout the state...