Library Supporters Attend Brooklyn "Read-In"
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Library enthusiasts have no problem keeping it down, but there's no silencing them when it comes to talk of library cuts.
Protesters gathered for a 24-hour "Read-in" Saturday outside the Brooklyn Public Library in Grand Army Plaza. They say they will not be shushed over proposed city cuts to the public library system.
Nearly a hundred people participated, reading in 15-minute shifts.
"What's really at stake is the poor man's university, the ability to self-educate yourself by having access to information, and that's desperately important."
"I think it's very important that we keep the libraries because well first of all both of my parents are librarians so if they cut the libraries and they get laid off we'll be on the streets, but other than that libraries are the second part of the New York City education system without libraries kids don't have anywhere to go."
Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed cuts that could force dozens of libraries to close and limit services at others.
Children and demonstrators made post cards to send to lawmakers asking them to keep the libraries open.