Westerville Public Library

Westerville Public Library
Type public library
Established 1930
Location Westerville, Ohio
Access and use
Circulation 2,269,798
Population served 92,603
Other information
Budget $7,307,039
Director Don W. Barlow
Staff 107
Website http://www.westervillelibrary.org/


The Westerville Public Library is a public library that serves the community of Westerville, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. As a school district library, its geographic boundaries are defined by the Westerville City School District (Franklin County, Ohio) which straddles both Franklin County and Delaware County. All Ohio residents can apply for a Westerville Public Library card.

As of December, 2014, the library had 118,720 registered borrowers, circulated 2,102,171 items and saw 81,475 people attending library programs and events with total operating costs of $6,567,375.[1]

Location

The library is located at 126 South State Street, in the heart of Uptown Westerville. To access the library's parking lot, turn onto Library Rd from Walnut St.

Services

Circulating Materials

The library circulates (i.e. allows card holders to borrow) the following types of items in various formats for education or entertainment purposes:

Books Movies Music Other
Audiobooks on CD Blu-ray CDs Art Prints
Books Described Videos for the Visually Impaired eMusic Baskets
eAudiobooks DVDs CD-ROM
eBooks Playaway Videos eMagazines
Large Print Spanish-Language DVDs Electricity Usage Monitors
Playaways Magazines
Readalongs Puzzles
Somali-Language Books Science & Literacy Kits
Spanish-Language Books USB Drives
Wi-Fi Hotspots

Library card holders also have the option to request items from other libraries through SearchOhio or OhioLINK.

Events & Programs

The library hosts events and programs for patrons of all ages, including story times, computer classes, book clubs, etc. There were 2,140 events held in 2014.[2]

Library Link

Library Link, established as a service to replace Project Connect in 2004, makes daily deliveries of Westerville Public Library materials to any participating school in the Westerville City School District. Students, faculty and staff of the participating schools can all receive library materials, except for art prints, as dictated by library policies.

Services for Seniors & Homebound Individuals

Outreach Services offers free delivery of library materials to persons who are physically unable to visit the library, including the elderly, the disabled and those who are temporarily incapacitated by illness or accident. Outreach also offers free delivery to full-time caregivers and any resident of a nursing home, assisted living facility, or senior apartment within the Westerville City School District, regardless of health or mobility.

Website

The Westerville Public Library website provides free access to the library's catalog of circulating materials, as well as remote access to an extensive collection of research databases and digital collections, such as ebooks, audiobooks, magazines and music.

History

The Westerville Public Library has been recognized as being on the "cutting edge" in the technology field; as one study notes, "it was the first Ohio library to provide public internet access, the first to have a Web-based catalog, the first to implement self-check machines, etc."[3]

1930s

1950s

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2000s

2010s


(Much of the information in this section was provided by the Westerville Public Library.)[14]

Other Information

Anti-Saloon League Museum

Main article: Anti-Saloon League

The Library is also the home of a museum for the Anti-Saloon League, a famous American temperance organization that was established in Oberlin, Ohio on May 24, 1893 and dissolved in 1933. The organization was established to "work for unification of public anti-alcohol sentiment, enforcement of existing temperance laws, and encourage the enactment of further anti-alcohol legislation."[15] The city of Westerville, Ohio was dry for well over a century. Westerville was once called the "dry capital of the world",[16] however it has recently relinquished that title as the first legal drink in recent times was served in Westerville in 2006.[17]

John R. Kasich Collection

On June 11, 2006, the Westerville Public Library unveiled the John R. Kasich Congressional Collection. The collection includes biographical, travel, campaign and Republican Party files from John Kasich's terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, as well as correspondence with constituents, 1,128 multimedia files, speeches and memorabilia, such as his Congressional desk and the gavel he used as chair of the House budget committee.[18]

See also

References

  1. "Ohio Public Library Statistics" (web). State Library of Ohio. Spring 2014. Retrieved March 12, 2015.
  2. "About Us (Annual Report 2014)" (web). Westerville Public Library. 2015. Retrieved March 12. Check date values in: |access-date= (help)
  3. Jerry Kline & Don Barlow, Integrated Ecommerce in the Library: A Software Development Partnership Between Innovative Interfaces and the Westerville Public Library, Ohio, in Library/Vendor Relationships 137, 152 (Sam Brooks & David H. Carlson eds. 2006)
  4. "2005 Ohio Public Library Statistics:Statistics by County and Town". State Library of Ohio. Retrieved October 30, 2006.
  5. "Hennen's American Public Library Ratings". HAPLR Index. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  6. "America's Star Libraries, 2010: Top-Rated Libraries". Library Journal. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  7. "America's Star Libraries, 2011: Top-Rated Libraries". Library Journal. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  8. "Westerville library will restore Sunday hours March 4". Westerville News & Public Opinion. Retrieved April 2, 2012.
  9. "America’s Star Libraries, 2013: Top-Rated Libraries". Library Journal. Retrieved February 25, 2014.
  10. "2014 "Best Employers in Ohio" SMALL/MEDIUM EMPLOYER CATEGORY (15 - 249 U.S. EMPLOYEES)". Best Companies Group. Retrieved June 6, 2014.
  11. "America’s Star Libraries, 2014: Top-Rated Libraries". Library Journal. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  12. "Columbus Parent's 2014 Best of Columbus". Columbus Parent. Retrieved March 12, 2014.
  13. "Best Employers in Ohio". Best Companies Group. Retrieved April 12, 2016.
  14. "Library History". Westerville Public Library. Retrieved March 29, 2011.
  15. "Anti-Saloon League". Westerville Public Library. Retrieved December 25, 2006.
  16. "Ohio History Central". Ohio History Encyclopedia. Retrieved December 25, 2006.
  17. Rice, Lin (December 2006). "Uptown alcohol sales:Merchants say area is revitalized". ThisWeek Community Newspapers. Retrieved December 25, 2006.
  18. Rice, Lin (June 15, 2006). "Supportive crowd greets Kasich at library" (web). ThisWeek Newspapers. Retrieved March 29, 2011.

External links

Coordinates: 40°07′22″N 82°55′47″W / 40.122837°N 82.929756°W / 40.122837; -82.929756 (Westerville Public Library and Anti-Saloon League Museum)

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