Atlanta-Fulton approves PL bond.(lj news)(Atlanta-Fulton County, public libary)

Clackamas, OR, vote successful; wins in OH, losses in IL

Library budgets may be suffering, but voters around the country offered supportive if mixed votes in favor of library levies last month. Despite a newspaper editorial urging a "no" vote (see News, LJ 11/1/08, p. 16), 65 percent of voters in Atlanta-Fulton County approved a $275 million bond referendum that would fund eight new libraries in the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System, two expanded libraries and 23 renovated libraries, plus $85 million toward a new Central Library.

It will be the largest library building program in state history; the last library bond in Fulton County was in 1985, for $38 …