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Pima County library proposal would shrink and move downtown branch, close more locations this year (azluminaria.org)

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“Our new focus unlinks our services from brick-and-mortar, to make us nimble, responsive, innovative, and relevant to all communities as we go where customers are — both in person and online,” the report says. “This is a big departure from previous expectations that every library [is] as close to every type of Programming as possible.”

Several of the libraries that will be closed will have parts of their programming shifted to nearby community centers. In some cases, book borrowing services would move to book lockers or pop-up libraries, or mobile book-mobiles.

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[–] zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

It seems like the people who want to cut services are blaming the homeless. Instead of closing libraries, maybe work on that problem. It's like how there are fewer benches for everyone because of hostile design.