The Administration Section of the branch is responsible for the verification of documents submitted by public libraries and the calculation and conveyance of provincial establishment and operating grants paid to public libraries and library associations. Development Services Development Services provides educational support to rural and northern public libraries. Continuing education is provided to rural public library staff and trustees through orientations, workshops, a training conference and educational publications. Development Services staff also provide information and support to libraries in their delivery of cultural and literary programs at the local level. The Public Library Services Newsletter is published five times a year.
Staff assist communities in establishing libraries.
Technical Services Technical Services ensures access to library materials through cataloguing and resource sharing support for rural and northern public libraries. The Cataloguing program provides a centralized cataloguing service to the regional and municipal public libraries, maintains the central catalogue to facilitate resource sharing and catalogues the central PLS collection. Circulation Services Circulation Services provides collection support from the central PLS library. The Inter-Library Loan program forms the basis of the regional public library resource sharing network that locates and facilitates the exchange of library materials between rural Manitoba and other provincial or national sources. The central catalogue holds the records of all regional and municipal public libraries in the province as well as the central provincial library.