This year’s federal funding for State Library on the way after ‘emotional ride’ for organization

This year’s federal funding for State Library on the way after ‘emotional ride’ for organization

A January 2025 view of the South Dakota State Capitol in Pierre. (Makenzie Huber/South Dakota Searchlight)A few months ago, South Dakota State Librarian George Seamon got an invite to a Pizza Ranch lunch with members of the South Dakota Library Association. The invite had come at a trying time.   Weeks earlier, former Gov. Kristi Noem had released a budget that would’ve slashed the State Library to a bare-bones operation. Were lawmakers to go al…