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Durham takes over as library system director
Regional libraries face tough funding challenges
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Jennifer Durham was named the director of the Statesboro Regional Library System in October.
Persistent cuts in state and local budgets present a tough challenge for Statesboro Regional Libraries, but a new system director says she is up to task. Jennifer Durham, who was named the director of the Statesboro Regional Library System in October — taking over for the departing Sharon Rowe — envisions a bright future for the five-library system that she says will always strive to “do more with less.”“There are some challenges, of course, with the economic troubles that are facing libraries and everyone else,” Durham said. “In addition to some of the local issues from county to county concerning funding agencies, we are facing additional cuts from the state.”Support from Georgia legislators has dwindled in recent years and reached a point where no money is provided to add books, DVDs or audio materials to libraries, she said.
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