Deaf Cultures Missouri When the grand jury decided not to charge police officer Darren Wilson for the killing of Michael Brown, all public schools in Ferguson closed but the Ferguson Municipal Public Library decided to stay open. Like all American towns, Ferguson has a public library, board of trustees and library friends. Scott Bonner is the only full-time librarian and he has 12 part-time staff members and a budget of about $400,000 serving 21,538 populations ferguson.lib.mo.us On December 9, 2014, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported the donations of more than $350,000 pouring in after people, including well known novelist Neil Gaiman, who has more than two million followers, tweeted their support of the library. Author John Green, known for “The Fault in Our Starts,” had sent signed copies of his book to the library. Scott Bonner, the library director, said the library can use the money for library improvement but his main goal is to hire a full-time children’s librarian who can work on programming. How many deaf people live, work or/and go to school in Ferguson? Let’s build Deaf Culture Digital Library in Missouri. They will come
Posted on: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:57:19 +0000
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