Monroe County District Library

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Monroe County District Library
Monroe County District Library logo.png
Country United States
Type Public library
Location 96 Home Ave, Woodsfield, Ohio, 43793
Coordinates 39°45′36″N081°06′32″W / 39.76000°N 81.10889°W / 39.76000; -81.10889 Coordinates: 39°45′36″N081°06′32″W / 39.76000°N 81.10889°W / 39.76000; -81.10889
Collection
Items collected Books, CD's, Videos, Audiobooks, Magazines & Newspapers
Size 53,000+
Access and use
Population served 15,180
Members 8,000
Other information
Director Kathy South
Staff 9
Website monroecounty.lib.oh.us

The Monroe County District Library is a small rural public library in Woodsfield, Ohio, serving a population of 15,180. [1]

Public library Library that is accessible by the public

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 servants.

Woodsfield, Ohio Village in Ohio, United States

Woodsfield is a village in Monroe County, Ohio, United States. The population was 2,384 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Monroe County and houses the Monroe County Courthouse.

Contents

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 second Tuesday of every month. 9 employees work at the library.

Monroe County Library is a member of SEO, one of the largest Dynix cooperatives in the United States.

Serving Every Ohioan Library Center library

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.

Library services

The library’s collection consists of the following:

If any item is not available, users can also request material from other libraries via Interlibrary loan (ILL). All residents of Ohio are eligible to get a library card. Monroe County Library has approximately 8,000 card holders. The library has many other services, most of them free: Laminator, FAX Service, Copier, Projectors (including LCD, Slide, 16 mm, Overhead), Meeting Room for Rent, Gazebo for Rent, Story Time Programs, Other Various Programs, Tax Forms, Ebooks, Reference, Internet capable computers, WiFi, Genealogy and local history information, Online public access catalog, & Online Databases.

Interlibrary loan is a service whereby a patron of one library can borrow books, DVDs, music, etc. and/or receive photocopies of documents that are owned by another library. The user makes a request with their home library; which, acting as an intermediary, identifies libraries with the desired item, places the request, receives the item, makes it available to the user, as well as arranges for its return. The lending library usually sets a due date and overdue fees of the material borrowed. Although books and journal articles are the most frequently requested items, some libraries will lend audio recordings, video recordings, maps, sheet music, and microforms of all kinds. In some cases, nominal fees accompany the interlibrary loan services.

Ohio public library funding

The first financial support of public libraries in Ohio began in 1933 when libraries received revenue from the intangible personal property tax. The intangibles tax was levied on individuals’ holdings of stock and bonds. The revenue was collected in the county of origin and was distributed to libraries based on need. In 1983, the Ohio General Assembly repealed the intangibles tax and replaced it with the Library and Local Government Support Fund or LLGSF. An amount of the personal income tax equaling 6.3% of Ohio’s personal income tax receipts were earmarked for the LLGSF. This funding was divided using an equalization formula so that underserved areas would receive a guaranteed share. In 1993, the General Assembly passed legislation reducing the LLGSF from 6.3% to 5.7% of personal income tax. It remained at that level until the 2002-2003 biennium budget called for the funding to be frozen at the same level as July 2000 through June 2001. This was the beginning of a funding freeze which lasted through December 2007. Beginning with January 2008 distributions, a new funding source was developed. This fund named the Public Library Fund or PLF is 2.22% of the state’s total general tax revenue. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/GCTTable?_bm=y&-geo_id=04000US39&-_box_head_nbr=GCT-PH1&-ds_name=DEC_2000_SF1_U&-format=ST-2
  2. ↑ Puskarich Public Library System
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