r/nosurffamilies • u/Live7777 • Mar 02 '22
There are so many FREE activities for kids at most local libraries
From big cities to small rural counties, libraries have storytime, art classes, take home art kits, and much more. Often times when we go to these events, there are only 2 families there :(
The less people go, the less funding they get for these programs. Sticking to borrowing physical copies of books also helps.
Libraries across the country are struggling due to the demand for ebooks (I know they have their place, but I very much prefer physical books). With ebooks, major corporations such as Amazon license them out to libraries, and require the libraries to continually pay for the right to lend them out; libraries never actually own ebooks while they do own their physical copies. Essentially, Amazon eats up a lot of taxpayer money that should be reserved for physical books and other library programs.