I’ll never understand why cities do this. Why of all days, Sundays, when most people can use the library?
Oh, they have funding, don’t beleive otherwise. They have just chosen to spend the taxpayers $$ otherwise. Take a look at the budget someday, you’d be shocked. :eek:
Expense. Time-and-a-half overtime pay, usually.
FWIW, my library stopped offering Sunday hours because we had very little usage. I fought to get them, negotiated it through the union, talked the staff around to it, thought it was the spiffiest service idea ever…and the whole thing bombed.* Sunday hours were the first things cut when the budget got tight.
The library I worked at before was swamped on Sundays. Go figure.
*The staff was delighted. And they’ve never let me forget it. ::shrugs:: Win some, lose some.
Aw. I love the Ashland Public Library. Loved, I guess. 
Our libraries are funded on the local level and the taxpayers are the ones who vote on the level of property tax levied for the library.
Totally confused here - I’ve never lived in a place that had a library open on Sunday. Is that the norm? Mine here in Carson isn’t, the one in Oklahoma isn’t, and none of the ones in San Antonio were when I lived there.
~Tasha
Well, of course. But when the city is having a hard time, and even critical departments, such as streets, are being pared to the bone, well, I’d rather have potholes fixed than be able to go to the library on Sunday.
Our local library just recently expanded their hours to be open on Sundays (1-5)–not much, but better than nothing.
I am so sorry to hear about Oregon. Surely something can be done?
Tulsa’s Central Library downtown is open reduced hours on Sundays. Several of the larger branches in the system are too.
It probably won’t help with this case, but have you considered changing your residency and registering to vote? Generally, if you live somewhere a decent amount of time, you’re a resident if you say you are. I did when I went to college, so I could vote on local issues.
I’m sorry to hear about the libraries closing. One of the things I love about where I live now are the libraries. The central branch downtown is just a few blocks from my office, and I go there about twice a week.
I’m sorry to hear about your libraries closing. My question is about the logging thing. I can sort of understand about how the logging stopped and all, but then shouldn’t the federal government give the land back then? Maybe with some provisions about how much can be cleared and for what purpose? If you don’t wanna use it, fine…then give it back to the people that live there to manage.