Ben Avon will be keeping the Carnegie Library Bookmobile service for 2011.

Finance chair Judy Konitsney has been opposed to the idea because, she has said, the cost of the ser-vice -- $10,000 -- could be better used elsewhere. However, when the subject came up at Tuesday's meeting, she said she was also against it because people other than borough residents use it, and those communities don't contribute to the cost.

Earlier in the meeting, resident Susan Fink told council how much the Bookmobile meant to her as a child. "When I was 12 I learned about the Bookmobile that came to Ben Avon Friday nights." She said her family didn't have a lot of money and her father got her a basket for her bike so she could carry home 10 books, the maximum allowed, from the Bookmobile.

"It's one of the first things I point out to new neighbors," she said. "It's like the whole world comes to Ben Avon."