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ing the library’s financial needs. “I’m not here to beg or plead,” she said, “but to present the fact.” •*
She said if the county cut the library’s appropriation by $500, the library would stand to lose a total of $1,286 in state and federal matching funds. It would also lose its standing in the Virginia Library Association, and that could mean that in 1975, when the state may fund libraries 100 per cent (instead of at the present level of 22 per cent), the county could lose even more.
At the association’s recommended level of 40 cents per capita, a $2?000 appropriation is just about right, said Mrs. Jamieson. But it also means that $500 can’t be cut without jeopardizing matching funds.
If the library is curtailed, there is no way students could be served satisfactorily for reference needs, etc., she added. As proof of the library’s growing importance, she cited figures that showed the circulation of books went up 32 per cent last year, and that 581 citizens or 10 per cent of the population now hold library cards.
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