Loads goes into library companies which may be invisible to a sure share of patrons, however that are important to others. Nonetheless, I discover it attention-grabbing (and, I admit, irritating) that your library appears to be offering the same old “library expertise” that most individuals want for–e.g., a secure place to go to heat up or cool off, use a pc freely, and take a look at supplies. What’s your beef? And what are you fixing by providing a special possibility that can compete with the general public library and probably take away circulation numbers in such a manner that it might change into even *much less* “absolutely funded” (this could imply ANYTHING, and I strongly suspect you don’t understand how prices break down at your public library)?
The library expertise is subjective, however as a public librarian, I can inform you that libraries can’t be every thing to everybody, and this does generally get in the way in which of parents utilizing them the way in which they’d like to have the ability to. And that may be a disgrace. However the reply is to not provide a competing service. The reply is to become involved in your native authorities, cross referenda that levy taxes to pay for extra/higher library companies (amongst others), and perceive that utilization = funding. You aren’t serving to your group by constructing your individual non-public library. However maybe that was by no means your purpose