Open Seven days a week

Another blog I have been observing this week is called Library Stuff, and it is about exactly what the title says, library stuff.  It discussed many different thing that affected libraries not only in the states but around the world as well.  One of the things that I found somewhat sad was a blog discussion about Libraries being open seven days a week.  A librarian from a certain library was talking about how the library usually was not that important in their community and now all of a sudden the community wants the library to be open all seven days of the week and the library is going to be able to be open all seven days of the week.  In response to this wonderful news, another librarian from a different library system lamented that their community was not this way and that they were not able to be open seven days a week and no one seemed to mind.  It is sad when a community does not care about their library, but what could that library do to make it care.  In what little experience I have, I have observed that it is a two way street when it comes to public service.  If the community does not see a reason to support you, then maybe you should reevaluate why you are there and what services you are providing for the community, because if you're not providing services for your community then you shouldn't be a public service entity.