“We still need to budget for things that don’t circulate and we just have here for reference material,” Maguire-Wright said, noting that she did not see a day when ebook and digital costs would be a higher percentage of the Free Library’s budget than its share of total circulation (28 percent). The Free Library system, which has 54 branches across the region and more than 640,000 cardholders, had a 2017 materials budget of $4.5 million.