Pasco County Libraries
Library system in Florida
Pasco County Libraries (PCLS) is the public library system that serves all residents of Pasco County, Florida, and is a member of the Tampa Bay Library Consortium. The Pasco County Library Cooperative (PCLC), which encompasses all of the libraries in the system, was established by county ordinance in 1980. It consists of eight branch libraries and Zephyrhills Public Library, a cooperative partner library.
Pasco County Libraries operated on a budget of $6,205,291 for fiscal year 2016–2017. Pasco Libraries circulated 2,623,024 items during that period. The head of library services reports to the Assistant County Administrator for Public Services.
Patrons have access to e-content such as databases, eBooks and audio books through Overdrive, Hoopla, Flipster Magazines, and The New York Times. It also provides eGovernment resources as well as computers.
History
Pasco County Libraries was established on July 22, 1980 to form the Pasco County Library System (PCLS), which are the branches operated by the county. There were municipal-owned and operated libraries in three different cities that were not a part of the system: Dade City, New Port Richey, and Zephyrhills.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pasco County Libraries” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.