If they can find $20,000 out of some other pocket, we wouldn't have to cut back normal hours during the week - the materials would still hurt, we wouldn't have to lay people off.
There have been tests and studies done on a lot of these different filters and none of them are as good as they claim to be. For home use, they'd be just fine, but for library use...it would block some things that adults have the rights to see (like medical information).
We'll have to have summer hours year round.
We already require kids under 18 to have a parent's signature on file to let the child use the internet.
The good thing is that library employees are going to get a 3 percent raise, the bad part is that some will get laid off.