Case Study #6 - AZ state library State Grants-in-Aid

Ok, this is the last case study of the institute :-)

The panel brought forth the issues - one of which is that the state librarian reports to the legislature and is still the only state where this occurs. Through the process, AZ was able to double its state grants-in-aid funding from 1999 to 2000 by using the legislative interest and support for charter and home schooling. The various partnerships with cultural groups such as the humanities council, museum groups, the friends of libraries/museums and the state library association helped to make it all possible. The question ended up really being what do the legislators really care about? The big issue was the number of charter schools which ended up being the argument for the increase in library funding because of there being so many funded charter schools in AZ. There were then some reports of successful budget requests.