Christopher 
Publishers don't donate books to public libraries.  Libraries buy their 
books and have budgets for procuring materials.
A typical library will establish a waiting list for a popular title in 
advance of it going on sale and add it to the collection on the official 
release date.
Most interlibrary loan protocol will require a certain waiting time for 
books to be sent to other network libraries, but that is a whole other 
matter.

Publishers don't view libraries as charities, and libraries buy books just 
as their customers have to.





He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
Jim Elliot


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