By 1938 the WPA Library Services Project had established 2300 new libraries, 3400 reading rooms in existing libraries, and 53 traveling libraries for sparsely settled areas.[https://dp.la/exhibitions/history-us-public-libraries/libraries-on-the-move/wpa-library-programs] Federal money for these projects could only be spent on worker wages, therefore local municipalities would have to provide upkeep on properties and purchase equipment and materials. At the local level, WPA libraries relied on funding from county or city officials or funds raised by local community organizations such as women’s clubs. Due to limited funding many WPA libraries were “little more than book distribution stations: tables of materials under temporary tents, a tenant home to which nearby readers came for their books, a school superintendents' home, or a crossroads general store.” The public response to the WPA libraries was extremely positive. For many “the WPA had become ‘the breadline of the spirit.’”