Carnegie libraries required host cities to levy matching tax support

Evidence

In the course of discussions with the civic elders, Carnegie offered another £5,000, so long as the city would adopt the Library Act – that is, levy a tax rate to support a new library. The council readily agreed, and in 1884 Dunfermline opened the first of what would become 3,000 Carnegie libraries. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 704

Categorization

• XREF: The conditionality of Carnegie’s philanthropy parallels modern challenge grants and matching-fund models in institutional fundraising. — connects to: Libraries functioned as instruments of nationalizing contested border regions — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 739
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 704

Broader Connections

• Libraries functioned as instruments of nationalizing contested border regions #expands (0.75) — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 739