Herodotus wrote:

o you know the background to the Carnegie libraries?
o they still exist in the US? In New Zealand, unless I am mistaken,
:they have all been taken over by the local councils (county and town
:local government as opposed to central government).

:The building are still there and are almost all identical in
:construction - red brick with concrete or plastered lintels and
ediments.


The buildings are still around, though lots of them are no longer
libraries. They're pretty small buildings, and aren't well suited for
modern library use, which has more than books. (Some people might say
less than books.) The grants that were intended to fund them have
mostly been used up as operating money. The libraries are run by
local library authorities, usually town or county sized.