I love the library for its public study spaces. It's great being surrounded by other community members also studying, whether it be for school, a topic in their professional work or just something they want to dive deeper into. Life is unavoidably challenging and expensive, so I feel everyone needs the library as a place to spend a quiet hour or two at no cost studying whatever they find worthwhile and interesting.

My mom took us to the library, just like her mom took her. She asked us to support the library and keep the love of the library alive in our families. The libraries are the flower of our democracy. Please restore the funding; expand the funding; fund them more and more and more!