The next ten days could be the last for the Wareham Free Library. But no one knows for sure.

Library Director Denise Medeiros said she will soon be in talks with Town Administrator Derek Sullivan to determine how many employees the library will have and how many hours, if any, the building will be open on July 1.

Since the Proposition 2 1/2 override budget was voted down on Tuesday, the library is slated to receive $125,000 in funding from the town for the fiscal year starting on July 1. That is $300,000 less than the budget from just two years ago and what the library would have received in the override budget.

"I don't know if funding at this level is worth it for the town because I don't know what we're going to get for a service out of that," Sullivan said at a budget meeting in February. At a meeting earlier this month, Sullivan said the library would lose its director, the head of reference and the adult services senior librarian if the override did not pass.

Medeiros said library staff are in the middle of some projects they can't continue and fundraising isn't yet an option since they don't know how much longer the library will be open.

"The Friends of the Wareham Library have their annual book sale in July, which is their biggest fundraiser, but we don't know if they're even going to have it," she added.

Additionally, while the Spinney branch is privately funded through 2015, the town owns the building and its future hours of operation are yet to be determined.

"I don't know where we will land in July," said resident Nichole Mazzoli.

Mazzoli moved to Wareham 10 years ago, a year before one of her sons were born.

"The library was a way to meet people before the kids were in school," she said. "And a way for a mom of three to get out of the house."

She said her 20-year-old daughter would go to the library to do research all the time, and that she brings her sons to the library every Thursday to have them tutored.

She said her younger kids have grown up with the children's librarian, Marcia Hickey.

"Her excitement makes them want to read," Mazzoli said.

It's estimated the library serves 500 people per day, and many in the adult section were disappointed with the outcome of Tuesday's vote as well.

"I'm really worried about what's going to happen. I hate to see it not be an option," said resident Jill Reed.

Reed said she and her mother do a lot of traveling, so they check out a lot of audiobooks. Reed said they frequently use the virtual catalog to check out materials from other libraries - which won't be an option after Dec. 4, 2014.

On that day, if the library is still open, Wareham will be decertified by the state (for lack of funding) and will lose the ability to share materials between most other libraries throughout the state.

According to the most recent Board of Library Commissioners report, the only town in Massachusetts without a public library is New Ashford, whose population in the 2010 census was 228.

Reed said her family from Texas comes to visit once a year and would be disappointed to hear the news.

"How am I going to explain to my visiting family that we don't have a library?" she said.