The Pictou-Antigonish Regional Library is stepping up fund-raising, as it grapples with years of no increases in their core funding from the province.
Peoples’ Place Library, Antigonish
Chief Librarian Eric Stackhouse says a donation station was established at the Antigonish Town and County Library on Wednesday. Donation stations will be set up at other branches by the end of next week.
Stackhouse says PARL is making it clear to their users that funding from the province could be flat for the next number of years, so it will need to fund-raise 10 per cent of its operating budget. That’s an increase from three per cent, representing about $140,000 this year.
