I love the idea of the Austria starter pack (and as an Australian obviously laughed at the kangaroos). Congratulations to your colleague — citizenship applications in many countries can be really complicated, even for people who've lived in the country for years.

I'd echo what the other librarians are saying above — closing branches of a public library system is often a bad sign, and I'm sorry to hear that your childhood library is closing. My first childhood library moved branches in 1993, and then the new branch closed for good in 2007, which meant that basically a quarter of the city had no public library after that point.