By Bethany Barnes
Las Vegas Review-Journal
North Las Vegas libraries are taking steps to better serve the public, and that doesn’t involve just books. As North Las Vegas scrambled to balance its books to avoid a state takeover, the city’s actual books were imperiled.
Something had to be done about the cash-strapped city’s libraries.
The North Las Vegas Library District met with the Las Vegas-Clark County Library District, but the two determined merging wasn’t feasible. But running Nevada’s fourth most populous city without a public library? That struck everyone as absurd.
So the city cut hours, slashed staff and closed its oldest branch in favor of a smaller one inside City Hall — and started asking for help.
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