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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
I don't think the city government micromanages this library. But you are surely right that it is about money. If an affluent someone wants to bring back the free borrowing privileges, contact the Development Office, and I'm sure they can work up your cost (subject to highly likely approval by the Board of Trustees and/or Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation board).
By the way, they don't have to give out-of-municipality Pennsylvania residents eBook privileges. The only legal requirement is to let state residents borrow paper books. I'm speculating that non-Philadelphia Pennsylvanians get full city privileges because of trying to please the state legislature and/or a lot of contributors come from the suburbs.
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Quite probably. We had a grant given to our library to fund a bookclub for an Alzheimers nursing home. But it was a one year grant. It allowed the library to buy x amount of books for the program and a librarian ran the book club during library hours at the nursing home. There was no "reapplication" so when the year was up, the program was over.
In some cases the same thing can happen with an overall budget. Our library could request special monies for x, y or z. Now, that didn't mean they would actually SPEND it on that thing (almost always did) but because it was outside the regular budget request, it might also run out within a year. So a program might kind of be on a trial basis depending on where the money is coming from
Then there are the cases where things are approved, but not funded or partially funded. This actually happened with two hiring requisitions. They were part time, were requested and granted. However they were not "funded in full." So while there was some additional money in the "library overall budget" there was not actually enough to hire either part time worker.