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Originally Posted by pwalker8
No, I have a fairly rational view of where the money comes to buy the books. A public library buys books based on the money they are give by the government. You may put in requests for your local library to buy a book, you don't allocate how much to spend on books or decide which books are purchased. Depending on how big the library system is, books might be purchased at a central location rather than by individual librarians and your requests are at best added to a list of requested books which might or might not get purchased. Perhaps if you are in some small town library you might have some pull with which books that get purchased, but in the large library system, any individual library patron has very little influence on what books get purchased.
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What makes you think you know better than I do how my Australian public library system works? Your hubris is out of control in this thread.
In my local system, for both paper books and ebooks, everyone who places a purchase request also has a book reserve placed in their name in the system, and the number of reserves is visible to logged-in library users when the book goes onto the Ordered list in the library catalogue. So I in fact have an extremely accurate idea of how many people also placed a purchase request for a book I have requested. It's usually 1; sometimes 2 or 3. The pbook library is not a small-town library, it's a standard suburban one; four B&M branches in one LGA, joined into a single book/catalogue pool. The ebook library is a State one.
Are you trying to change the goalposts to some hand-waving "total book spend" rather than "ways to support your favourite authors" now?