As quoted from http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/enrich.html, part of the Iowa Library Service Area webpage.

Enrich Iowa: Fund Libraries is a proposal for direct state aid to public libraries which will reduce the current inequities in funding. Most important, it will give all Iowans the opportunity to have electronic access to information at their local public library. Enrich Iowa: Fund Libraries was designed to:

• raise the level of public library service in Iowa by providing incentives for improvement;
  
• reduce inequities to access to information for Iowa citizens;
  
• enhance, not replace local funding;
  
• include recognized and adopted lirary standards with graduate payment levels.
  

The elements of this $3 million proposal are:

A. Direct Aid to Public Libraries

• Base amount ($1,000, $2,000, or $3,000) dependent on compliance with three tiers of standards
  
• Per capital amount ($.20, $.40, or $.60) dependent on compliance with three tiers of standards
  
• Three percent (.03) of the amount of funding received by the library in the previous fiscal year for service to rural residents and to contracting communities. The percentage is the same for all tiers.

• Technology and information resources development and coordination.

C. Cooperative, Demonstration and Special Project Grants

• An annual competitive grant program for improving service to customers through new and innovative technologies and services, cooperative alliances and enhancement of physical facilities.
  

D. Implementation

• Oversight, assistance to libraries and use of an advisory committee to set direction of the program.
  

Enrich Iowa will move library service in Iowa closer to the ideal envisioned by library customers, librarians, governmental officials:
"Each Iowan will have equal access to information and ideas in order to lead an enriched life through lifelong learning and to participate knowledgeably and productively in a democratic society."

This project was proposed in 1994, and so far as I can tell (an 11/25/01 reference to it on the main ILSA homepage http://www.ilsa.lib.ia.us/) it was funded and is in progress.