Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Board of Trustees to Announce Plan for Addressing Library Funding Issues
Posted on: Monday, 5 October 2009, 14:00 CDT
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Funding cuts, coupled with escalating annual operating costs, are projected to create a widening gap between operating revenue and expense at Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Library officials will hold a news media briefing to share the details of a plan to reduce costs and protect the quality of library services for the citizens of Allegheny County.
WHEN: Tuesday, October 6, 2009
11:00 AM
WHERE: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Main
4400 Forbes Avenue, Oakland
Director's Conference Room
About Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
To Engage our Community in Literacy and Learning
Established as a public trust in 1895, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh serves the citizens of Pittsburgh and Allegheny County with a distinguished history of leadership among the country's great public libraries. Through its 19 neighborhood locations, including the Main Library and the Library for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh is the region's most visited asset, with 2.6 million visitors in 2008. Each year the Library provides valuable resources, programs, classes and training opportunities that engage the community in literacy, and life-long learning.
In 1895, philanthropist Andrew Carnegie dedicated the Main library of Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh and proclaimed it 'free to the people.' While he provided the seed money to build the first public library to bear his name in Pittsburgh, he did not endow its on-going costs, as he believed the community and local government should take ownership and responsibility for such a valuable community asset. For many years, grants from the City of Pittsburgh, Allegheny County and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania provided operating revenue for Pittsburgh's libraries. In 1994, the Allegheny Regional Asset District was created and became the major source of annual operating funds, thus reducing the role of funding by local government. Approximately 70% of the Library's annual operating funds come from sales tax revenue distributed by the Allegheny Regional Asset District.
In 2004, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh began to actively fundraise to support a capital improvement program to address its aging facilities. The campaign recently capped off a $55 million goal in which these funds were dedicated to the renovation of nearly one-half of the libraries facilities.
In June, the Library began to educate the public about the chronic underfunding of the system and the need to reduce expenses and find new long-term and dedicated sources of revenue to sustain the viability of the Library system.
To learn more about Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, please visit www.carnegielibrary.org.
SOURCE Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Source: PR Newswire
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