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Originally Posted by tubemonkey
You sell the buildings off. Bigger is better and cheaper when you don't have to deal with overlapping services.
This is purely a suggestion on my part. Since I don't use the physical buildings, it doesn't matter to me how much they have to cut back because of budget cuts. eBooks will survive.
I always vote against increased funding for libraries.
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Here in Vancouver, the ebooks are actually from an external organization that the library pays for providing the lending service. Take away everything but the ebook lending, and you're left with nothing in the city. Maybe the city could negotiate with the ebook lending service themselves, but if they would be willing to pull the plug on local libraries, I can't see them paying for external services either. Maybe things are different where you are, but I'd be leery of undermining local library services if you still want to be able to borrow ebooks online later.