Quote Originally Posted by iris lilies View Post
You all in New Hampshire do not believe in taxation. I am of two minds about that--I need a basic public library of 100,000 items. Even in this day of electronic media, I need 100,000 volumes to scan. To peruse the shelves. I need to touch and feel 100,000 volumes.Yes, I use the word "need" even though I will not actually touch 90% of the volumes.

Yet, DH and I are talking about moving to New Hampshire. Only Manchester would meet my criteria of 100,000 volumes in one place.

So I need to carefully think about this, and I really do not want to live away from a city of size, anyways.

...and on topic, I don't need the public library to show me computer skills but it's great that it has those classes. My library offers tons of things through Lynda.com and it's great.
Well, we do have taxes. There's the property tax, which I believe is one of the highest in the country. And the "sin" taxes--restaurant meals, tobacco and alcohol. We just don't have an income tax or sales tax. Yet.

Part of it is just the lower population and fewer large cities and towns. For comparison, the state of NH has roughly twice the population as the city of Boston. The greater Boston area has roughly 7 times the population of NH. No matter what the taxes, if you are collecting them from fewer people, there's less money.

My city is in the top 10 population-wise in NH and it has less than 30,000 people.

Fortunately for me, the library may be small, but they do interlibrary loans cheerfully. And they do have museum passes--I'd forgotten about those.

But what I really want to know is how you can find out how many volumes a library has? My library's website doesn't seem to have that info.