Washoe County Library System is the public library system of Washoe County, Nevada.
In 2002 it had a bond for new branches and extensive renovations and in a span of several months library usage increased by 17%.
The library system did financially well until 2009 with the Great Recession.
The county cut 500 county jobs then, and by 2015 there had been a 40% decline in the number of employees and in the library system's budget.
[1] By 2016 the library system was removing thousands of books which were not parts of historical collections and which had not been checked out by patrons in the previous four years.