I hope the local libraries survive. I just started using mine again for the first time since I was a child . . . to get books for my child : )
Getting a book every couple weeks for myself as well.
Do they still have books on how to make buggy whips?
Between Amazon and Internet, my family has not used a library. Amazon has some great book for children and of course the internet is incredible. As newspapers become extinct so will libraries as they should be. They cost too much money and are not needed any longer. I am sorry that you will miss out on the library but we need to cut them as they are too expensive for what they offer or even better, who uses them.
I get books, magazines and DVDs from my local public library all the time. It's just two blocks away and surrounded by a nice park. I really enjoy it.
When I was a kid the school libraries doubled as community public libraries and anyone could use them. Sometime in the early 90s, the community grew anxious over the ease at which anyone could freely wander around the halls of a school and restricted library use to only students while funding a neighborhood public library off school grounds that everyone could use.