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Petersburg library faces $10,000 IMLS cut, collection budget trimmed and service changes
Summary
Library staff told the Petersburg Library Board that a federal grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services was terminated, costing the library about $10,000 and a statewide interlibrary loan coordinator; the board discussed a 27% cut to the collection budget and planned service-hour adjustments.
Petersburg Library staff told the Petersburg Library Board that the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) has terminated a pass-through grant that funded a statewide interlibrary-loan coordinator and other local services. The termination will cut roughly $10,000 from the library’s budget and will end the Anchorage-based staff support the board said handled out-of-state interlibrary loans for small Alaska libraries.
That loss, staff said, will affect a small number of patrons who request out-of-state materials: "We actually got our letter of termination of grant later last week," a library staff member said, adding that the staff person…
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