Excerpt: If the Des Plaines Public Library wants the $600,000 loan that its staff says it needs to avoid a temporary shutdown, the facility should focus on what libraries do best: lending books, the city's mayor said Thursday.
"They have to come in front of the city council and justify why they want this loan . . . [and] justify to the city council that they are making the necessary cuts so they won't have to come to us for loans in the future," Mayor Marty Moylan said.
He said the library needs to return to its core mission of making "basic reading material available." Moylan said he has heard comments in the community that the library shouldn't, for example, be in the business of loaning out CDs and movies for free.
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