Arizona LSTA Eligibility Policy

To be eligible to receive LSTA funds in Arizona, all libraries must meet the following criteria:

Be open to the public at least 750 hours per year, with regular, posted hours.
Provide core library services, such as borrowing privileges and computer use, free of charge to all residents within the library’s service area. A school or academic library may define its service area as its academic community.

A library must meet all criteria for one of the following:

Academic Libraries

Serve a public college or university.
Participate in AzNET, and upon library request, loan materials to Arizona libraries at no charge.
Submit to the State Library all reports in a complete, accurate and timely manner.

Limitations: LSTA-funded projects must directly serve the general public.

Public Libraries

Receive a minimum of 50 percent of funding from public sources OR be organized as a non-profit.
Participate, upon patron or library request, as a lender and/or borrower in the statewide interlibrary loan of circulating print materials, regardless of subject or genre, without charge to their patrons or to other Arizona libraries. The sharing of circulating non-print materials is encouraged, but not required. Libraries may limit ILL requests to six per patron at any one time and may limit requests to materials published more than one year ago (prior to March 2007); not currently on a nationally recognized best-seller list; or not needed by the library’s own patrons. With prior notice to the patrons, public libraries may pass on to their patrons real and actual charges incurred from out-of-state libraries in the filling of those patrons’ interlibrary loan requests, including postage.
Submit to the State Library annual public library statistics and all other reports in a complete, accurate and timely manner.
Demonstrate an ability to provide quality virtual information to library patron.

School Libraries

Serve a public or charter school in Arizona.
Participate in resource sharing with other school libraries in the same school district.
Be managed by a certified school librarian.
Submit to the State Library all reports in a complete, accurate and timely manner.

Limitations: LSTA-funded projects must directly serve the general public.

Special Libraries

Serve as a library for a governmental unit or non-profit organization.
Participate in AzNET, and upon library request, loan materials to Arizona libraries at no charge.
Be managed by a librarian with an MLS or Western Council library certification.
Provide services to Arizona residents.
Submit to the State Library all reports in a complete, accurate and timely manner.

Limitations: LSTA-funded projects must serve the public.

Tribal Libraries

Be recognized and supported by a tribal government in Arizona.
Submit to the State Library annual library statistics and all other reports in a complete, accurate and timely manner.
Demonstrate an ability to provide quality virtual information to patrons.

Updated: 12/27/2008