That’s How You Play The Library Card

Find a 9 year-old, hope her penmanship is halfway legible and leak it to the press:

A 9-year-old Canarsie girl has penned an impassioned plea to Mayor Bloomberg to save the Brooklyn Public Library as the latest round of budget cuts threatens to reduce service to just 25 hours a week — the lowest level since the city’s fiscal crisis in the 1970s.

The mayor’s budget would slash the Brooklyn Public Library’s budget by $17.5 million — or 21% — and give borough residents the fewest library hours in the city.

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“I thought I should probably write a letter to the mayor. It’s not good that he should be doing this,” she told the Daily News.

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“If the library closes, where are we supposed to go?” she wrote in her two-page letter to Bloomberg.

“The only thing we will have to do is go home. And home is not as fun as the library. Home doesn’t have games, programs and books everywhere.

“Please keep my library open is all I say. Please keep it open everyday,” she went on. “If the library closes it will be all your fault.”