[Publib] ALA and Funding AND RE: ILL infrastructure

[Karen Schneider]

However, there are local decisions and there are local decisions. When I ran
a very small library, it was in a county where every small town had an
underfunded small library. In a nearby county, the county had a county
system, and though they weren't rich, they fared much better. I remember
finding paperwork indicating that our library's founders had considered but
rejected the idea of being a branch of the one larger library in its
county.  Funding was municipal, not tax-based. I think people will do what
they do, but it would be interesting to see how these crucial decisions can
be influenced in favor of the library's and the community's best long-term
interests.

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Michael Golrick <mgolrick at slol.lib.la.us>wrote:

>  The comments about small libraries is interesting. Massachusetts
> Congressman (and Speaker of the House) Tip O'Neill once said: "All politics
> is local." When the funding for libraries is primarily local (and primarily
> property taxes), then the decisions are made at the local level.
>
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