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F. Ward Murrey is the vice-president of the State Library of Ohio Board, and former director of the Southeastern Ohio (SEO) Library Center.
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F. Ward Murrey is the vice-president of the State Library of Ohio Board, and former director of the Southeastern Ohio (SEO) Library Center.
Murrey first became affiliated with the State Library of Ohio in 1961 when he began working for the Southeastern Ohio Library Center (now called Serving Every Ohioan Library Center) in Caldwell, Ohio. Murrey started out as a part-time employee for the center, traveling to various counties exchanging books and media. He later became an assistant to R. Jane Thomas, who served as director of the center from 1964 to 1972. When Thomas left the center, Murrey served as the bookmobile supervisor. In 1979 he was appointed director of the SEO Library Center and served this position until he retired in 1998.[ citation needed ] Ten years later in 2008, Murrey began serving on the State Library of Ohio Board of Directors. As of January 2011, he serves as the board's vice president. Murrey is a longtime advocate for libraries, especially rural and small libraries. Murrey is a member of the Noble County Chamber of Commerce. [1] He currently serves on several local boards and the sixteen county Eastern Ohio Development Alliance, [2] an independent, non-profit organization created to promote economic growth in eastern Ohio through regional cooperation.
In 2000, the SOLO Regional Library System constructed a building adjacent to the SEO Library Center. When SOLO disbanded in 2006, the building was given to the SEO Library Center, who annexed it in honor of F. Ward Murrey. The F. Ward Murrey Annex serves as a training facility for libraries across the state of Ohio. The annex features a fully functional computer lab including LCD projection technologies. The F. Ward Murrey Annex is available at no cost to any state agency or Ohio library for learning purposes and training sessions. The annex is located at 40678 Marietta Road, Caldwell, Ohio.
Noble County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,115, making it the fourth-least populous county in Ohio. Its county seat is Caldwell. The county is named for Rep. Warren P. Noble of the Ohio House of Representatives, who was an early settler there.
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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 to state agencies and public libraries across Ohio.
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