The library is part of a
regional library network called a federation. There are currently six federations
in Montana. You can determine which federation your library belongs to my
viewing the map located on the federation
website. The legislature appropriates coal severance tax money for library
federations. The federation determines how much money each library spends and
how that money can be used through a budgeting process that happens each spring
at a federation meeting. The Montana State Library Commission reviews and
adopts the budget requests of each federation at their June meeting.
