The kind of commercial establishments in a locality, town, country, is an indicator of the prevalent culture. Shopkeepers value their shelf space, they keep things that sell i.e. that the people in the locality buy. To remain solvent, libraries need reader-customers. Like shops, libraries too value their real estate and keep books that people borrow. The motivation for subscribers if often to borrow books for their children - the kind of expensive childrens books that are marketed well and made popular among the children. But that does not raise the societal culture. Till date, the other media - TV, social media and even internet, do not and (I think) cannot match in ability to elevate the culture that good quality books, magazines, journals can do with wide variety of and depth of knowledge areas. Do you have good quality bookshops, libraries in your locality? Do share information about them.
You are what u read! Venue : Tianjin Binhai New Area Library