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The Plans for State Aid for Public Libraries and Federated Systems report is now open

by | Nov 1, 2023 | Data, State Aid

Hello Everyone,

The Plans for State Aid for Public Libraries and Federated Systems report is now open.  The Office of Commonwealth Libraries’ deadline for submitting/locking your report is Friday, December 1, 2023, at 4:00 PM. System administrators and/or district consultants may provide earlier deadlines for their review purposes.

The Plans for State Aid for Public Libraries and Federated Systems report can be found at LibPAS (Counting Opinions).

This year we have combined the plans for State Aid and plan for County Coordination Aid. If your library does not receive county coordination aid directly from the state as part of your state aid payment, then you will not have access to the county coordination aid plan section of the report.

Training for the Plans for State Aid and County Coordination Aid can be found here.

Q&A sessions will be hosted at the times listed below. These sessions will be open to all. They are designed to allow us to answer any questions that you may have while filling out your plan. The sessions are optional for anyone to attend. We want to utilize this time to help those who are having trouble with any part of the report.

Q&A Session Times

  • Thursday, November 2, 2023: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
  • Tuesday, November 7, 2023: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
  • Thursday, November 9, 2023: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
  • Tuesday, November 14, 2023: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
  • Thursday, November 16, 2023: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
  • Tuesday, November 28, 2023: 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM

Links to the Teams Meeting will be provided on the State Aid Library Resources LibGuide. If you cannot attend any of these Q&A sessions, please feel free to send your questions to RA-StateAid@PA.gov.

Thank you,
Administration and Data Unit

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