Why don all Perry County residents have a home library and Access PA privileges?
Until recently, all Perry County residents did have a ‘home library’ because the entire county population was claimed within the service area of the Perry County Library System (made up of the Newport Public Library, the Bloomfield Public Library, the Marysville-Rye Library, and the Community Library of Western Perry County). However, in 1999, Commonwealth Libraries revised the PA Library Code and updated State Aid standards. They now require that a state-aided library (or library system) spend a minimum of $5 in local financial support for each person living in its service area. The Perry County Library System could not meet the $5 per capita minimum expenditure requirement for the entire county population of 43,602; the System was therefore forced to disband for state-aid purposes. Today, each of the four public libraries must operate as independent libraries with individual service areas. Each library can only claim a population amount for which they can spend a minimum of $5 per pe
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