Minnesota has a has a robust support from the Minnesota State
legislature as far as statewide support, but it does go for
basics.
Keeping the lights on, paying staff salaries, making sure that
libraries around the state have resource sharing opportunities,
things like that.
The character of the federal funds that we get are for often
for so wonderfully shiny things that libraries are known for.
We really appreciate those federal dollars.
They do a lot and go a long way to upholding the principles of
libraries and librarianship.
They allow librarians and libraries and communities to
dream, and to go a step further, they really often move the
needle for communities in Minnesota.