Metrowest Daily News 4/26/10: Massachusetts library systems to be consolidated, staff cut. Ask for a book, CD or DVD from a far-off library, and, voila, it shows up at your local branch. It's the kind of service that libraries say patrons are using in record numbers. Yet six state-funded organizations that run such programs saw a 28 percent budget cut this fiscal year and they expect to lose as much as another 29 percent the next. In July, Massachusetts' regional library systems will consolidate into a single statewide organization with about half the staff.