Sentences with phrase «library district»

Although their solution has a number of components, the goal is to establish a county - wide library district.

For School Libraries Public library districts come to mind first when considering ballot initiatives, but they are by no means the only types of libraries where voter education and campaign support matters.

The measure's approval creates a permanent library district to fund library services and hours beginning in 2013.

At last report, however, the central library board was drafting state legislation to allow for an independent countywide library district, complete with its own taxing authority.

A local initiative developed by library and educational book supplier Wheelers launches a trial next month of its homegrown ebook lending service with Tauranga and Hamilton library districts.

As the third largest library district in the state, it features seven libraries and is considered one of the busiest libraries in the United States, with more than eight million items checked out annually.

We are eager to test out this innovative pricing model from Recorded Books,» says Logan, Director of Products and Technology, Anythink Libraries, one of the largest library districts in Colorado.

Voters in Carol Stream and the Cook Library District in Lake County each approved a 10 - cent tax rate increase and voters in Broadview and Crete approved converting their village libraries to separate library districts.

The Buffalo and Erie County Library system's quest to create a separate independent library district, for instance, is among the topics with which we continue to wrestle.

Villages and library districts next year will be limited to raising tax levies by a mere 0.12 percent while counties and towns will be limited to 0.73 percent, according to Comptroller Tom DiNapoli's office.

They shared their concerns with Assemblyman Robin Schimminger and me regarding the Buffalo and Erie County Library System's push to create a countywide library district.

At the same time, a local initiative developed by library and educational book supplier Wheelers implemented its own system homegrown e-book lending service with Tauranga and Hamilton library districts.

«We have one park district, one school district, one library district.

The Park Board on Thursday night voted to terminate its inter-governmental agreement with the library district to build a joint library - community center in Central Park, in exchange for a $ 42,705 payment from the library district to compensate the Park District for its expenses planning the failed project.

Acting separately Thursday night and Friday morning, the Grayslake Park District and Public Library Boards finally ended their fight over the library district's refusal to follow through on a promise to build a joint - use facility with the Park District.

The independent foundation, to be incorporated as a not - for - profit organization, would solicit, receive, hold, invest and manage gifts and donations of money, property and services to the library district, which serves Wheeling and parts of Buffalo Grove and Prospect Heights.

Officials from the Orland Park and Tinley Park public libraries met with more than two dozen unincorporated Orland Township residents, who last month asked the board about the possibility of forming a library district.

Here are those who filed for the school district board, village board, library district and park district.

Will the state legislature approve the establishment of a library district?

(12) All ebook content is offered for remote circulation to duly registered borrowers of the library district.

In fact, the knowledge they shared with me helped me get my job as a fiction buyer for my library district.

But not every library district has a Macleod or a Bill Gates (himself part Scot), a major library donor in his area, and few angels can cover every local need or are willing to.

With the creation of a library district by voters to fund library services, the library is ready to embrace our patrons» needs for generations to come with more books and materials, more digital content and new ways of providing responsive service.»

The current property tax rate (PDF) for Multnomah County Library District is $ 1.18 per $ 1,000 of assessed value (AV), and the library district rate is limited to $ 1.24 per $ 1,000 AV.

In 2010, an internal task force examined the potential formation of a library district.