Such private donations, along with fees and fines, make up about 10 percent of library budgets on a national average.

This would cut the library budget to $165,000 per year.

The library budget for the current fiscal year is a little more than $500,000.

There is not much fat in current library budgets.

The library budget, if there was one, wasn't under her control.

"Why not have a universal voting day in May, when the library budget is on the ballot?"

By law, once voters have passed a library budget, that amount cannot be eliminated, she said.

The goal was to trim $119,000 from the town's total library budget of $3.4 million.

Never mind that the public library budget could be cut as much as 12 percent.

Next year's library budget of less than $100,000 must cover four staffers' salaries and other expenses.