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The article discusses the results of the "Library Journal's" 2022 Budgets and Funding survey, sponsored by Penguin Random House, Baker & Taylor, and The Library Corporation (LTC), which received responses from 214 public libraries across the U.S. Findings include increase in total operating budgets from 2020 to 2021, difference between the two types of funding sources of libraries, and spending shifts by nearly half of responding libraries.