This Sask. village is fighting to keep its library open. It's not the only one closing

She's not even trying to work with us. The meeting that was supposed to give people in Alvina answers confirmed what they were afraid of. The village of 75 northeast of Saskatoon is losing its library. Wapiti Regional Library plans to close it next month. Inside the library. People are still coming and going for now. They say it's an important community hub. Beautiful thing about the library is it's not just books. So you can actually rent DVDs and other types of media which can actually save people a lot of money. Alvina isn't the only one. Wapiti says six branches will close by the end of the year. Wapiti's CEO, Tony Murphy, says the province is responsible for the closures. As I say, after years of cutting and cutting and cutting at the regional office and in our operational processes, we're just not seeing any help from the province. So the solution was to cut the communities that contribute the least money to their branches. But the mayor of Elvina disagrees. It was a lousy $13,000 offset, a year offset, which if they actually would have had that information and let that be public knowledge, I'm sure the community within the Arm of Fish Creek and Elvina would have got together and donated more and spent more on their fundraisers to keep it going. The province says it's increased funding for Saskatchewan's library system in the latest budget, an increase of $175,000 for a total budget of $11.7 million. The community has now started a petition, but say they're not being able to share it in the library with patrons, something Michelle Ireland wants Tony Murphy to change. Will you let us sign petitions in your libraries and have the librarians collect them? Collect the petition please? Aishwarya Duda, CBC News, Elvina.