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Great River Regional Library requests county support for Minitex as federal funding wavers
Summary
Great River Regional Library staff briefed the Todd County board on regional usage statistics and asked for a resolution supporting Minitex to sustain interlibrary loan and statewide digital resources amid uncertain federal funding.
Karen Ponsack, executive director of Great River Regional Library (S10), presented system statistics and a board‑level resolution asking for county support of Minitex, the University of Minnesota consortium that administers interlibrary loan and statewide electronic resources.
S10 said federal funding for libraries has become uncertain and asked the county to consider a show of support for Minitex, which helps the regional system share materials and access databases. She cited regional metrics: roughly 98,000 cardholders, more than 1,000,000 visits across the region, 34,000 digital‑library borrowers, a record 13,414 youth participants in the Summer Reading Challenge, and 14,500 interlibrary‑loan borrows in 2024. S10 stated that about $20,000 worth of requested titles were fulfilled by interlibrary loan rather than direct purchase over the past six months.
Commissioner Denny (motion) and a second carried a resolution to show the county's support for Minitex and related services.
Provenance: topicintro SEG 553, topfinish SEG 905
