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65 South Front Street/Columbus, Ohio 43215
IN THIS ISSUE No. 184, March 21, 1977
Resource Sharing in MCCs . ..... ; ............................... .
Institution Libraries: A Decade of Growth . ...................... .
STATE AID, APPROPRIATIONS, AND
COSTS REVIEWED BY STATE LIBRARY BOARD
The State Library Board March 8 reexamined program priorities and the 1978-
1979 biennial budget request as it reviewed alternatives under a "survival
level" of' spending in preparation for a March 9 budget hearing before the
House Finance Appropriation Committee (see following article, p. 43).
In a report on state aid, Mr. Shubert reviewed final payments under
the FY 1977 state aid program. These are as follows:
Area library service organization
Subsidy for service to the blind and
handicapped readers
Maintenance state aid
Reimbursement for interlibrary loans
$300,929
280,081
40,572
16,677
The FY 1977 state aid appropriation of $655,000 was reduced 3 percent by execu­tive
order of the Governor, and therefore $16,741 will returned to the State
General Fund. The state aid payment to the Ohio Valley Area Libraries Area
Library Service Organization is approximately 47 percent of the amount needed
for full funding under the ALSO essential services operations grant formula.
The second largest state aid program is reimbursement to the Cincinnati
and Cleveland public libraries for talking book service given statewide. The
two regional libraries for the blind and physically handicapped served a total
of 18,997 readers in 1976: 13,267 from Cleveland and 5,628 from Cincinnati.
This represents an increase of 8,570 o~ 8.9 percent above the 1975 total.
The State Library reimburses each library a base payment of $25,000 and $18
for each out-of-county reader. Payments, reduced 3 percent in accordance with
Governor Rhodes' Executive Order, were $89,812 to Cincinnati and $202,993 to
Cleveland. These payments included $12,614 in LSCA funds and $280,081 in state
aid funds.
Library Services and Construction Act (LSCA) grants to computerize the
Cincinnati and Cleveland regional libraries are having an impact on services.
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