My CP and Budgeting

Before working with the Public Library I assumed that the Public Library would be given it's own section in the overall yearly budget of the city. however upon asking the employees the library is kept up primarily through donations and a few government programs. In order to research my paper I looked  into the budget of Brisbane for 2012-2013 to find the exact number of funds spent on the Public Library. When looking I discovered that there is no specific government funds outlaid for the library, it is put into another fund allocated for teenage programs and children programs. These findings further illustrate that Public libraries are losing their prominence in the community, the lack of appropriate funding by the local governments is appropriated by a large donation of donations and a large network of other Public Libraries that rely on one another for support, for example instead of having too buy new books for the library's collection they can simply borrow from one another cutting back costs. From other conversations with employees and volunteers of the library it has come to my attention that direct funding for the local government comes only when there are specific building repairs to be made. However this lack of substantial funding increases the difficulty for libraries trying to stay relevant and their abilities to provide for their constituents are severely impaired.