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In the United States of America, state library agencies established in each state have long been a catalyst for a great deal of the motivation for public library cooperation. This has been since the founding of the movement, starting in 1890 when Massachusetts created a state Board of Library Commissioners charged to help communities establish ...
State aid is typically divided among all libraries in a state in the form of block grants. Each eligible library receives a percentage of state aid based on the library's budget, income and population served. State aid supplements local library budgets, and is particularly important for rural libraries and libraries supported by a small tax ...
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The Chicago public library: origins and backgrounds (Gregg Press, 1972) Watson, Paula D. "Founding mothers: The contribution of women's organizations to public library development in the United States." Library Quarterly (1994): 233-269. in JSTOR; Whitehill, Walter Muir. Boston Public Library: A Centennial History (Harvard University Press, 1956)
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
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Boise State ranked No. 5 in the Mountain West in terms of revenue generated in FY ‘22, according to annual reports and a database maintained by Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public ...
The library’s proposed budget for FY2024 is $96,337,654. The majority of the budget is funded by ad valorem revenue raised through the County Library District. The library also receives an annual Florida State Aid to Public Libraries grant. As in the past, alternative revenue sources are sought to supplement ad valorem funding.