BlogJunction Connecticut » Connecticar http://webjunctionworks.org/ct/blog A weblog for the WebJunction Connecticut community Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:57:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Governor’s Proposed Budget for FY 2012 and 2013 http://webjunctionworks.org/ct/blog/index.php/2011/02/17/governors-proposed-budget-for-fy-2012-and-2013/ http://webjunctionworks.org/ct/blog/index.php/2011/02/17/governors-proposed-budget-for-fy-2012-and-2013/#comments Thu, 17 Feb 2011 15:56:05 +0000 Sharon Brettschneider http://webjunctionworks.org/ct/blog/?p=1663 Governor Malloy has released his budget recommendations for the FY 2011-12 and 2012-13 fiscal years. The complete budget may be found at:
http://www.ct.gov/opm/lib/opm/budget/2012_2013_biennial_budget/education.pdf
The State Library budget begins on page 416.

There were two cuts in the budget:
Funding for Connecticar (listed as Interlibrary Loan Delivery Service) was eliminated. Half of this service is funded with federal dollars. This budget eliminates 6 positions and all state funding. This is a reduction of $281,392.

Funding for Connecticard was reduced from $1,256,679 to $521,545. This is a reduction of $704,483.

Grants to Public Libraries remains the same at $347,109.

Assuming there are no holdbacks next year the following three lines will be restored to their current services levels.
Connecticut Library Consortium is back to current services at $350,000.
iCONN is back to current services at $1,973,516.
reQuest is back at $674,696.

The rest of the State Library remains at current services levels.

There are no additional bonding funds for public library construction.

]]> http://webjunctionworks.org/ct/blog/index.php/2011/02/17/governors-proposed-budget-for-fy-2012-and-2013/feed/ 0 April 2010 Ccar Study Results http://webjunctionworks.org/ct/blog/index.php/2010/06/11/april-2010-ccar-study-results/ http://webjunctionworks.org/ct/blog/index.php/2010/06/11/april-2010-ccar-study-results/#comments Fri, 11 Jun 2010 18:13:49 +0000 Sharon Brettschneider http://webjunctionworks.org/ct/blog/?p=1022 How long does it take to get a book sent on Ccar? Based on business day calculations the answer is an average of 1.66. Many more results are now available, including a comparison to the results from a similar study in April 2008. Thank you to all the libraries participating in this important study.

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