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No. They shouldn't. They are public and should NEVER engage in anything commercial businesses engage in. Never in a million years.
If a library paid for with public funds needs to spend more public funds to inform the public that they have a library, then it's time to shut down the library.
So the same applies to hospitals then? Hospitals are allowed to market their business and operate, mostly, on public funding.
The price system does not stop existing simply because you park "public" or even "non-profit" in front of an entity and something like a library would probably benefit by distributing to the public awareness of its location, its recent acquisitions, and so on.
No it is not!
Okay. Care to share your reasoning behind that?
Sporadic internet here . . . Sorry about delay in responding.
If a public library is using public funds to let the people know where it is, when its hours of operation are, and what new acquisitions are, then that is a good and viable use of those public funds. I have no problem with that as that just might help someone that otherwise might not know where it is or that it now has the books that that person might need.