Colehill Library will continue to receive 500 books a year from Dorset County Council after its funding is cut in April.
Users of the library, in Middlehill Road, will still be able to order online, and the council has also said the self-service scanner and computer system will stay.
The council will maintain both of these and provide a professional librarian for three hours a week in an ‘advisory capacity’, Tracy Long, Dorset Library Service manager, has confirmed.
Around 150 people have volunteered to help run Colehill Community Library.
A management committee is being set up to take responsibility for transferring the library from county control.
A business plan has been submitted and is due for approval by the council on March 7.
Colehill Parish Council is raising its precept to provide financial support for three years.
Each household will pay an added £3.50 in 2012/13 to raise the necessary £10,500 for the first year.
Friends of Colehill Library will continue to raise funds for special projects.
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