Why are Monetary Donations Important?

In order to receive funds from the state each year, public libraries must first meet state standards for libraries, including a requirement that has to do with how much a library is able to receive and expend in local financial effort in support of library operations each year. In order to remain eligible to receive the current level of State Aid support, libraries in the Somerset County Federated Library System (SCFLS) must receive and spend at least $5.00 per capita for the population of their service area in local financial effort. Donations like yours help the SCFLS libraries meet this requirement, which demonstrates that our libraries are important to the people that they serve.

Through the pooled purchasing power of the Somerset County Federated Library System administrative unit, we would like to be able to offer some additional online resources to patrons of all of our member libraries. As a System, we received generous donations late in 2014 that allowed us to purchase a year's subscription to Ancestry Library Edition. Every year since then, we have anxiously watched as donations came in to make sure we would be able to renew that subscription.  There are similar items to which we could subscribe as a System if we receive enough donations to the general fund. If you would like your monetary donation to go toward supporting System-wide efforts such as these, please select the General Fund option when sending us a check or submitting a donation online at https://secure.qgiv.com/for/scfls