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Behind this reply, and its many variations, is the ever-present budget problem all libraries must face, from the largest to the smallest.
What to buy out of the year's grist of nearly 15,000 book titles??
What to buy for adult and child readers, for lovers of fiction and nonfiction, for a clientele whose wants are incredibly diversified, when your budget is pitifully small??
Most library budgets are hopelessly inadequate.
A startlingly high percentage do not exceed $500 annually, which includes the librarian's salary, and not even the New York Public has enough money to meet its needs -- this in the world's richest city.
The plight of a small community library is proportionately worse.
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