• Arts Council (England)
  Development agency for the arts in England, distributing public money from Government and the National Lottery. [link]
• Big Lottery Fund (was New Opportunities Fund) (UK)
  A fund for community transformation, from smaller grants at local level through to big capital projects, intended to regenerate and revitalise communities. [link]
• Financing public library buildings. (USA)
  Hall, Richard B, New York :Neal-Schuman, 1994
  Funding Public library buildings the American way - federal, state, local and private sources. [Book]
• Finding the Funding : Public libraries, PFI Partnerships and the Prudential Code. (UK)
  Levett, Shelagh Paper for Library Buildings Conference Bournemouth February 5-6 2004
  View Powerpoint presentation | View PDF file [Conference Proceeding] [link]
• NEW From Awareness to Funding: A study of library support in America (USA)
  OCLC was awarded a grant to explore attitudes and perceptions about library funding and to evaluate the potential of a large-scale marketing and advocacy campaign to increase public library funding in the U.S. The report suggests that targeting marketing messages to the right segments of the voting public is key to driving increased support for U.S. public libraries.
  View PDF file of the report [PDF] [link]
• Heritage Lottery Fund (UK)
  Gives grants to a wide range of projects involving the local, regional and national heritage of the United Kingdom. [link]
• LIBRIS design and financing public library buildings, The Bottom Line.
  Hall, R. B. Managing Library Finances 17, no. 1 (2004):20-27
  Estimating the cost of public library buildings using computer software. [Journal paper]

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