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I don't know about being under 7000, how about being under 1,000?
Richmond Public Library in Richmond Kansas has a population of 518 and finding funding here is not easy.
There are not very many businesses in town and the towns to the south and north each have their own library.
We have to get creative for funding. We have sold sno-cones during the summer,yard sales in the spring, had raffles during Christmas, tried to get patrons to adopt books. Every community is different you just keep trying until you find something that works. And in a small town what worked one time may not work the next. And yes it always help to ask what someone else has tried.

I need money, too. Here's the deal: I have written my Congressman to float the idea of a rural community college library sustainability act at the federal level to guarantee federal funding for rural community colleges that are more than an hour's drive away from anything approaching a large academic library. The way I figure it, if you are a rural community college within an hour's drive, you can always develop a symbiotic relationship with a sister library. However, if that type of relationship is impossible, a rural community college needs a floor funding level to guarantee money for a director, a public services librarian, a technical services librarian and a systems librarian. We also need a guaranteed floor to permit the purchase of one book per full time student per year, database subscriptions to support major fields of study and general education requirements, And, maybe, support staff to allow at least 65 hours of operation per week. In looking at a couple of other sites, as many as 500 community college libraries might qualify (still playing with google earth to confirm). Seems to me there are 250 congresspersons who ought to be interested. However, the go-it-alone approach seems strong amongst the rural stalwarts. So, would anyone else be interested?
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