The thought of a library having no budget for new books quite honestly makes me sick to my stomach. That's just ... it ought to be unthinkable. I hope someone leaves you an enormous donation specifically for that purpose (unrealistic, maybe, but one can always hope).

As for the non-fiction - I am only slowly venturing into the non-fiction reading world myself, and I highly doubt "Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods" is going to appeal to many people outside myself or my husband (from whom I borrowed the book in the first place).