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I admit it--I love libraries. I lead an evening book club at our downtown library, and I am greatly heartened when I walk through the section of the library that is set aside for students to reach our meeting room and see teens using computers and/or doing their homework, and reading. Sure, some of this could happen in schools, but does it really make a difference if my tax dollars are being spent on the school budget or the library budget?
My employer, a local not-for-profit, also uses the auditorium and the meeting rooms at the library for co-sponsored programming. There are a number of organizations that do this, and in our community, having space at the library to do this sort of thing keeps all of our costs down--we do not need to find governmental funding or donation money to create space of our own. The programming benefits 1000s of people a year.
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