No longer are libraries just places to borrow books. They are havens for the elderly, and provide computers for low-income kids and grown-ups who don’t have them at home. They offer services like voter registration (some are even polling places), classes in everything from D-Jing to gardening. They help their immigrant communities with everything from English programs to immigration information. They are performance spaces and safe after-school spots for kids. And next year, they will be a big part of the Census. Our guests talk about how the budget cuts will mean slashing those programs, and returning to the bad old days when libraries were open five days a week, some of them less than that, and why, no surprise, it is poor and immigrant communities that will suffer the most.