Community Matters - Save the Art Group Responds to Library's Plan to Auction Art Collection by WRFARadio

Originally airing Thursday, June 15, 2017

WRFA public affairs director Jason Sample talks with a group of local residents who support keeping a $1.17 million art collection at the James Prendergast Library in tact and remaining in the Jamestown area. Since September 2015 the library has been working to sell the collection to help address ongoing financial challenges it has faced in recent years. In May 2017, the library board announced that it had reached an agreement with the New York State Attorney General's office, allowing it to move forward and auction the collection. The board could act as soon as its June 15 meeting to hire an auction house to begin the process of selling the collection.