Try these five easy ways to support your local branch.By Catherine Strawn

Public libraries are an invaluable resource, but with shrinking budgets and closures they need you more than ever. Photo by GettyImages.

1. Ask for a card-and then use it.

A large number of active cardholders helps a library prove its worth to the community and justify its funding. Encourage your kids, friends and neighbors to get cards too.

2. Donate your change.

The coins you drop into the collection jars at the desk add up (to the tune of thousands per year at some locations)! So dig out your loose change before going inside and leave a few dimes when you check out a book.

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3. Supply a subscription.

Share a periodical you love with your whole town by offering to pay for a subscription ($10 to $30 a year). If you can't decide on a title, ask your librarian or check the library's website for a subscription wish list.

4. Support sales.
Many libraries organize sales of used donated books, DVDs and board

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Apparently, dudes aren't familiar with the concept of the friend crush.

Granted, my sample size is pretty small. My boyfriend was unaware of the term. When I asked him how he would befriend someone he didn't know very well, he said, "I'd play basketball with him, and we'd be friends."

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