July 2021
Changes in California State Library General Fund Spending
2021-22 (In Thousands)
| Ongoing Spending | |
| State Operations | |
| Administrative support (10 positions) | $1,148 |
| Restoration of employee salaries | 915 |
| Online digital database of governmental records | 460 |
| Data and systems librarians (3 positions) | 345 |
| State grants web portal (2 positions) | 314 |
| K-12 online database (2 positions) | 241 |
| Assistive technology for visually impaired patrons (2 positions) | 220 |
| California Homeless Youth Project manager (1 position) | 130 |
| Transfer Oral Histories Program to Secretary of State | -75 |
| Technical adjustments | -95 |
| Local Assistancea | |
| California Library Services Act restoration funds | $1,750 |
| Zip books | 1,000 |
| Broadband costs | 500 |
| Transfer Oral Histories Program to Secretary of State | -150 |
| Subtotal | ($6,703) |
| One-Time Spending | |
| State Operations | |
| Assistive technology for visually impaired patrons | $1,641 |
| Online digital database of governmental records | 1,640 |
| Disaster preparedness for cultural resources (6 positions)a | 835 |
| State grants web portal | 500 |
| Local Assistance | |
| Library infrastructure grants | $439,000 |
| Collaborative broadband projects | 35,000 |
| San Francisco Chinatown Media and Arts Collaborative property acquisition | 26,500 |
| English as a second language programs | 15,000 |
| Outreach Grants to Ethnic Media Program | 10,000 |
| Online tutoring for K-12 students | 6,400 |
| Inland Congregations United for Change Parent and Youth Civic Engagement | 6,000 |
| Broadband connectivity | 6,000 |
| Civil Liberties Public Education Act | 5,000 |
| Early learning and after-school programs | 5,000 |
| Mobile libraries | 3,000 |
| Career Online Education | 3,000 |
| Logan Heights Library facilities restoration | 2,400 |
| California Humanities | 2,000 |
| Disaster preparedness for cultural resourcesb | 1,552 |
| Broadband carryover | 1,303 |
| Jewish Family and Children’s Services Holocaust Center | 1,000 |
| Grants for LGBTQ sites | 750 |
| San Francisco Richmond Community Youth Center capital project | 500 |
| California Center for Civic Participation | 200 |
| Subtotal | ($574,221) |
| Total | $580,924 |
| State Operations | 8,219 |
| Local Assistance | 572,705 |
| a Early action legislation (Chapter 4 of 2021) also provides the Lunch at the Library program $800,000 ongoing General Fund beginning in 2020-21. | |
| b According to the administration, these amounts will be appropriated annually for four years, for a total amount of $9.5 million over the four-year period. | |
| LGBTQ = lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer. | |