2000 Minnesota Statutes

     134.32 Grant authorization; types of grants. 

    Subdivision 1.  The department shall provide the grants 
 specified in this section from any available state, federal, or 
 other funds. 

    Subd. 2. Repealed, 1995 c 186 s 39 

    Subd. 3.  It shall provide regional library basic system 
 support grants to regional public library systems which meet the 
 requirements of section 134.34, to assist those systems in 
 providing basic system services. 

    Subd. 4.  It may provide special project grants to assist 
 innovative and experimental library programs including, but not 
 limited to, special services for American Indians and the 
 Spanish-speaking, delivery of library materials to homebound 
 persons, other extensions of library services to persons without 
 access to libraries and projects to strengthen and improve 
 library services. 

    Subd. 5.  It may provide grants for interlibrary exchange 
 of books, periodicals, resource material, reference information 
 and the expenses incident to the sharing of library resources 
 and materials, including planning, development and operating 
 grants to multicounty, multitype library systems.  

    Subd. 6.  It may provide grants for the improvement of 
 library services at welfare and corrections institutions and for 
 library service for the blind and physically handicapped. 

    Subd. 7.  It may provide grants for construction or 
 remodeling of library facilities from any state and federal 
 funds specifically appropriated for this purpose. 

    Subd. 8.  (a) The commissioner shall promulgate rules 
 consistent with sections 134.32 to 134.35 governing: 

    (1) applications for these grants; 

    (2) computation formulas for determining the amounts of 
 establishment grants and regional library basic system support 
 grants; and 

    (3) eligibility criteria for grants. 

    (b) To the extent allowed under federal law, a construction 
 grant applicant, in addition to the points received under 
 Minnesota Rules, part 3530.2632, shall receive an additional 
 five points if the construction grant is for a project combining 
 public library services and school district library services at 
 a single location. 

    HIST: 1978 c 546 s 3; 1979 c 334 art 9 s 3; 1983 c 314 art 11 
 s 11,12; 1993 c 224 art 5 s 39; 1998 c 398 art 5 s 55