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Monroe County District Library
The Monroe County District Library is a small rural public library in Woodsfield, Ohio, serving a population of 15,180. The library’s mission statement is as follows: It is the purpose of the Monroe County District Library to create a physical and psychological environment, which is inviting to patrons of all age groups and station and to provide those patrons with the most comprehensive library service possible within the limitations of funds available for service. The Library strives to meet the informational, cultural, educational, recreational, and general needs of the community it serves, and to provide materials that will enable patrons to make intelligent judgments in daily life. To achieve these objectives through the communication of ideas, the library assembles, preserves, and disseminates books, other information media, and related educational and recreational materials such as films. The library board consists of 7 members who have their regular meeting on the secon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Monroe or Monroes may refer to: People and fictional characters * Monroe (surname) * Monroe (given name) * James Monroe, 5th President of the United States Places United States * Monroe, Arkansas, an unincorporated community and census-designated place * Monroe, California, former name of Hales Grove, California * Fort Monroe (Yosemite), California, a historic site * Monroe, Connecticut, a town * Monroe County, Florida * Lake Monroe (Florida) * Monroe, Georgia, a city * Monroe, Adams County, Indiana, a town * Monroe, Tippecanoe County, Indiana, an unincorporated community * Lake Monroe (Indiana), a reservoir * Monroe, Iowa, a city * Monroe, Kentucky, an unincorporated community * Monroe, Louisiana, a city * Monroe, Maine, a town * Monroe, Massachusetts, a town * Monroe, Michigan, a city * Lake Monroe (Mississippi), Monroe County, Mississippi * Monroe Island, in the Yellowstone River in Montana * Monroe, Nebraska, a village * Monroe, New Hampshire a town * Mount Monroe, a peak in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Library
A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants. There are five fundamental characteristics shared by public libraries: they are generally supported by taxes (usually local, though any level of government can and may contribute); they are governed by a board to serve the public interest; they are open to all, and every community member can access the collection; they are entirely voluntary, no one is ever forced to use the services provided and they provide library and information services services without charge. Public libraries exist in many countries across the world and are often considered an essential part of having an educated and literate population. Public libraries are distinct from research library, research libraries, school library, school libraries, academic library, academic librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Library
A public library is a library that is accessible by the general public and is usually funded from public sources, such as taxes. It is operated by librarians and library paraprofessionals, who are also Civil service, civil servants. There are five fundamental characteristics shared by public libraries: they are generally supported by taxes (usually local, though any level of government can and may contribute); they are governed by a board to serve the public interest; they are open to all, and every community member can access the collection; they are entirely voluntary, no one is ever forced to use the services provided and they provide library and information services services without charge. Public libraries exist in many countries across the world and are often considered an essential part of having an educated and literate population. Public libraries are distinct from research library, research libraries, school library, school libraries, academic library, academic librar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Woodsfield, Ohio
Woodsfield is a village (United States)#Ohio, village and the county seat of Monroe County, Ohio, Monroe County, Ohio, United States located 30 miles northeast of Marietta, Ohio, Marietta. The population was 2,384 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. History Woodsfield was founded in 1813 as seat of the newly formed Monroe County. It was named for Archibald Woods. The village was incorporated in 1835. Geography Woodsfield is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 2,384 people, 1,054 households, and 617 families living in the village. The population density was . There were 1,248 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the village was 97.3% White (U.S. Census), White, 0.7% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 0.2% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, 0.4% from Race (U.S. Census), other races, and 1.4% from two or more ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serving Every Ohioan Library Center
The Serving Every Ohioan (SEO) Library Center of the State Library of Ohio, located in Caldwell, Ohio, supports a consortium of 92 library systems at 224 locations in 46 counties. The SEO Library Center houses, maintains and supports a centralized shared catalog database that includes over 8 million items with a patron database of 930,000+ borrowers. The SEO Library Center staff provides technical support as well as software support for all consortium members, alleviating the burden of specialized IT functions on small libraries. The Center houses over 200,000 materials which includes books, entertainment and public performance DVDs, videos and 16mm films, books on tape/cd, playaways, MP3 cds, Ellison letter dies and microfilm/fiche. The SEO Library Center also provides and maintains training facilities through a mobile computer lab and the F. Ward Murrey Annex facility (located next to the SEO Library Center) to state agencies and public libraries across Ohio. History The Southe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Interlibrary Loan
Interlibrary loan (abbreviated ILL, and sometimes called interloan, interlending, document delivery, document supply, or interlibrary services, abbreviated ILS) is a service where patrons of one library can borrow materials and receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library. The user makes a request with a library, which identifies libraries with the desired item, places the request, receives the item, gives it to the user, and arranges for its return. In some cases, fees accompany interlibrary loan services. Procedures and methods A borrowing library sends, on behalf of its patron, a borrowing request to an owning library for original, photocopy, or scan materials. The owning library sends materials to the borrowing library or supplies a reason for why the request cannot be filled. Interlibrary loan and resource sharing have a variety of systems and workflows, often based on the scale of service, regional networks, and library systems. Processes are automate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puskarich Public Library System
The Puskarich Public Library System (PPL) is a rural, public library serving Harrison County, Ohio. The library also houses the Harrison County History of Coal Museum. The system has two branch libraries: Clark Memorial Branch Library in Freeport, Ohio, and the Scio Branch Library in Scio, Ohio. Overview Currently, the Puskarich Public Library System consists of three service outlets. The main library is in Cadiz, and branch locations are in Freeport and Scio. On March 6, 1880, in Cadiz, Ohio, a meeting was held to establish a public library; and in April, an upstairs room in A. J. McDonald's new building was rented on North Main Street. Nancy Dewey donated $1000.00 and an additional $1500.00 raised by public subscription. The library was opened to subscribers for the sum of $100 per year in the Fall of 1880. In 1895, the library was moved to the Harrison County Courthouse. A few years after in 1910, the membership fee was eliminated and control was given to the Board of Educa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Public Libraries In Ohio
In public relations and communication science, publics are groups of individual people, and the public (a.k.a. the general public) is the totality of such groupings. This is a different concept to the sociological concept of the ''Öffentlichkeit'' or public sphere. The concept of a public has also been defined in political science, psychology, marketing, and advertising. In public relations and communication science, it is one of the more ambiguous concepts in the field. Although it has definitions in the theory of the field that have been formulated from the early 20th century onwards, and suffered more recent years from being blurred, as a result of conflation of the idea of a public with the notions of audience, market segment, community, constituency, and stakeholder. Etymology and definitions The name "public" originates with the Latin '' publicus'' (also '' poplicus''), from ''populus'', to the English word 'populace', and in general denotes some mass population ("the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Education In Monroe County, Ohio
Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Various researchers emphasize the role of critical thinking in order to distinguish education from indoctrination. Some theorists require that education results in an improvement of the student while others prefer a value-neutral definition of the term. In a slightly different sense, education may also refer, not to the process, but to the product of this process: the mental states and dispositions possessed by educated people. Education originated as the transmission of cultural heritage from one generation to the next. Today, educational goals increasingly encompass new ideas such as the liberation of learners, skills needed for modern society, empathy, and complex vocational skills. Types of education are commonly divided into formal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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