Of the 300 submissions to the Queenstown Lakes District Council's annual plan, 116 refer to the library and are against changes now in progress.
The council is reducing Wanaka library staff and adding council functions to the jobs of those who continue to work there.
The message to the council from submissions was to make no change.
Melissa Ashby considered having just one librarian at the library, as planned, was like having a medical centre with just one doctor.
Kath Wilson said the decision to reduce library staff was a ''hastily contrived one'' made without public consultation.
The Wanaka Community Board submitted a ''comprehensive survey'' of the community be carried out to establish what services it required from the library and, once that was established, those services be provided.
The Hawea Community Association also called for a survey.
Sarah Millis submitted the library should not be a place for other council business.
''It is meant to be a nice, quiet, relaxing place for people to read. It's also a good place to study and you need silence.''
Stephen Kemp submitted the library was ''an oasis of calm'' and Graham Berry submitted the library was a ''place of quality, culture and charm'' that was otherwise missing from small-town life.
He considered the treatment of staff had been ''awful'' and that the Queenstown-centred, ''hard, commercial administration'' conflicted with submitters' views of Wanaka.
Lillian and Gary Cruickshank pointed out the Wanaka community was responsible for raising much of the funding to build the library, and they considered the decision to make changes had not been democratic.
''We are a growing community. The library is an essential resource for the future of our community.''
Richard Hewitt noted the ''significant assistance'' given by library staff towards the research of Maori history in the Upper Clutha and he listed publications that staff had assisted with.
Aspiring College teacher Simon King submitted it was ''not credible'' to assert the same level of service would be delivered with fewer staff and with decisions made in Queenstown.
Susan Hoskin and Julie Jones were among those who suggested Wanaka rather than Queenstown should be made the headquarters for the district's library services.
Prue, Lady Wallis submitted the library restructuring was an indication control of Wanaka affairs was gradually being shifted to Queenstown and Nicole Huddleston and some others suggested it was time for Wanaka to ''break away'' from Queenstown.
John Turnbull suggested library services remained as they were but that Wanaka ratepayers pay ''an increment'' for what he described as a ''positive and vibrant entity''.
The submissions will be heard in Wanaka tomorrow.
