Libraries struggle with shrinking budgets, bitter book battles, influx of homeless

U.S. libraries, beset by book controversies, shrinking budgets, an influx of homeless and the ongoing loss of their readers to the Internet, are struggling to adjust to a post-pandemic reset that has many communities looking at cutbacks and closings.

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