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General Revenue Sharing and Public Libraries: An Estimate of Fiscal Impact

This paper has two objectives: to determine the allocation of general revenue sharing funds to public libraries during the fiscal years from 1973 through 1977; and to estimate the net fiscal impact of these funds on the collective library budgets of the country. Actual Use Data tapes were obtained from the Office of Revenue Sharing and the Bureau of the Census, and COBOL programming was used to derive the needed data. This led to the accomplishment of the first objective. To achieve the second, a linear regression prediction model was used. The application of this model yielded certain conclusions regarding the extent to which general revenue sharing funds supplanted traditional local, state, and federal revenues and the degree to which the legislation provided additional funds for library programs, services, and capital projects.