Crazy Me, you said “they now have ebooks, emagazines, online subscriptions to different education opportunities and so many other things.” I am going to go online and see what my library offers electronically. Thank you for this information. I have avoided the library for years. My neighborhood public library functions primarily as a processing station for immigrants, legal and illegal, to be signed up for social welfare benefits and voting. I used to go to the midtown Manhattan library but stopped, so dirty, smelly and unsafe (now closed for renovations, hmm) because it primarily functions as a homeless shelter and a place to distribute information about social welfare benefits. There was a stretch of time when I was visiting different libraries in Manhattan while working on a project, and I swear at each library, inevitably, some mentally ill person would raise hell and the police would be called. So I just stopped using public libraries. Barnes & Noble became my library. But I was spending on coffee and books.
I wish someone would open a private library with steep membership dues. I’d pay for that.
