Statutory References
Conn. General Statutes (CGS) 11-25a, 11-31a, 11-31b, 11-31c. Regulations of Conn. State Agencies, Sec. 11-31c-1, 11-31c-2, 11-31c-3, 11-31c-4, 11-31c-5.
Program Description
"borrowIT CT" (formerly known as Connecticard) is a cooperative program among public libraries in Connecticut that allows a resident of any town in the state who holds a valid borrower card issued by their home library to use that card to borrow materials from any of the 192 public libraries participating in the program. Using their hometown cards, non-residents may borrow any of the materials that participating libraries lend to their local borrowers. Participating libraries are reimbursed for these loans by the CT State Library.
The budget for FY2019 is currently at $703,638.
Monthly Report - Form for reporting loans by your library.
Statistics and Payment Information - Payments, loans, borrows, net-plus, etc.
Regulations - All libraries should be familiar with these rules.
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Eligibility
All public libraries in the state of Connecticut which:
Grant Payments
The formula for determining grant amounts is included in the state statutes. Payments are made annually. One-half of the total funds appropriated is used to reimburse participating libraries for all reported borrowIT CT loans. The other half is used to make an additional payment to those libraries that loaned more items to non-residents than their resident card holders borrowed from public libraries in other towns.
borrowIT CT grant payments MUST be spent by the library and may not revert to the general fund of the municipality. See this MEMO to Municipal Fiscal Officers (PDF) for more detail.
Key Dates
Statistics & Construction Grant Administration, Maria Bernier, Division of Library Development, Connecticut State Library
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