Our lardass Governor Rendell hit libraries and state historical sites hard when we refused to give him the tax increases he demanded. We closed the gap with volunteers.
We also get a lot of volunteers, some are invaluable and can’t be thanked enough, many take up so much staff time to train and supervise that I wonder why we bother. We have been getting a lot of volunteers lately - more than usual. Some are school kids who are trying to pad their qualifications for college applications (or else their school requires a certain number of community service), some are unemployed people who want to stay busy and keep their work ethic humming. Others baffle me as to what has motivated them to offer their “services” in the first place.