Budgets are squeezing the freebies

Instead of complaining about budget cuts to the library and getting all the people to sign a pettition,they should volunter there time.The more the better,sometimes you should take matters in your own hands.

Please stop saying that public libraries are free. They are very sophisticated, complicated and expensive operations. Yes, you don't pay to borrow a book, but you have paid via your taxes to buy that book so that it can be shared with thousands of other readers. Yeah, Internet access is of no cost to you - but who pays for it? You do along with every other person in the city! It's an extraordinarily efficient way to use your tax money. Stop saying that volunteers can run a library especially one the size and complexity of the Athenaeum. The training to run the computer systems in a library is intense and has an impact on all the public libraries in the Commonwealth.