What does the chill mean?

It's kind of a catch 22 isn't it? More unemployment means more people using the library but less money coming into the city which leads to less money for the library. So the more people there are that need the library, the less services the library is able to offer. Or something like that. Unless they will cut the book budget which would be a drag. If you cut hours or (goddess forgive) people then customer service will suffer. Although it'd be nice to have mom home more so she can open more cans of food. There are many, many larger library systems around the country that are open hours such as 10-7 on the weekdays and 10-5 on Friday and Saturday. Some of these even have no Sunday hours for branches and only the Central library is open seven days a week. I'm sure workers might really dig shorter hours but decision makers will likely favor cutting the book budget. Of course if you wanted to go really radical, cut the DVD and media items, leave only books on getting a job and put in more computers. Does anyone really NEED Children's programming? (that was a joke) Mom loves when someone who is looking for a job gets mad because they won't move them up on the computer list over "those kids just playing video games." Hey those kids were ahead of you and are way more interested in playing those games than in you getting a job. We're all treated the same at the library....for now!