Applications are submitted to library systems first for review and approval at the system level before they are submitted to the State Library for further review. No funds were appropriated from 1987 through 1992. Each year the State Library is required to submit a program report from the Commissioner to the Governor and Legislature. Sixty percent is made available to libraries within each system in such a manner as to insure the ratio of the amount received to the whole is no greater than the ratio of the population served by each system to the population of the state. Forty percent is made available to library systems or libraries within each system in such a manner to insure that an equal amount is received within each system in the state.
State aid provides for up to fifty percent of the approved costs of the construction projects.
Library systems and libraries within those systems. Particular attention is given to the service needs of isolated communities.