“I’m not even from this branch,” a librarian tells me. “Send some of it our way!”
“It” is of course $. The line was long at the branch I was taking out books from, which is why that visiting librarian was having to staff the service desk.
Like everything that is life-affirming and allows people to self-actualize, public libraries are severely under-funded in the U.S., as I said to the librarian when she apologized for the wait.
And yes, indeed, we do need to throw money at the problem.