In Washington DC, about 12 years ago, the public library system was essentially the city govt's dumping ground - instead of spending money to maintain playgrounds it figured let the kids come inside the library and get rambunctious, instead of spending money on senior adult day care let them fall asleep at the library tables, etc., what they weren't spending money on was the libraries themselves - plenty of them had virtually no money to buy new books or renew subscriptions, some of them had leaky roofs and broken copy machines, etc.
Considering that librarians are paid less than school teachers, they were saddled with doing the work of recreation directors, outpatient therapists, crowd control, everything but what they were trained and hired to do.