The Pima County Library Foundation
(PCLF) is a non-profit organization formed in 1999 to ensure the continuing
vitality and excellence of our library system by developing and sustaining a
permanent endowment fund for the long term benefit of the Pima County Public
Library system. This permanent fund would provide funds for materials and
programs over and above the existing tax-based funding of approximately $18
million annually. The endowment fund is meant to augment, not replace, public
funding.
Current tax-based funding from
city and county government does not provide enough money to keep pace with the
population growth and does not provide enough money for future growth.
Therefore, we must obtain private funding for long term needs of the library.
The non-profit Pima County Library Foundation (PCLF) is answering the
challenge, launching a campaign to develop and sustain a permanent endowment
fund. Such a public/private partnership will enable the library system to
improve its services to an increasingly diverse, rapidly growing population.
The interest from this permanent
endowment fund will be used to support enhancements to the collections,
services, and special programs of the Pima County Public Library.