Tucked in the back of the Tippecanoe Township building, the North Webster-Tippecanoe Township Library offers more than 15,000 books, magazines, videos and audio books to residents. Open to the public, with library cards available for a fee to out-of-township citizens, the facility is a Library Services Authority - not a public library.Instead of raising revenue through a tax levy, the library is dependent upon matching line items in the town and township budgets and a generous community to operate. Helen Leinbach has been librarian since 1990. "We're the only LSA in the state to function as a 'public library,'" she said. When the library moves from its present location at 502 W.Washington St.into the new community center, a goal of Leinbach and the board of trustees is to become a public library.
TERESA SMITH, Times-Union Staff Writer- | July 28, 2016