Community Foundation board approves grants
\n(Findlay Courier © 02/03/2012)
The Findlay-Hancock County Community Foundation board of trustees approved grants totaling $28,795 at the January board meeting.\r\n\r\nThe total includes one competitive grant for $19,000 and seven president's discretionary grants totaling $9,795.\r\n\r\nA o");
document.write("ne-year competitive grant went to the Hancock Christian Clearing House to support an in-depth strategic planning process.\r\n\r\nCompetitive grants are a...\n
What's Buzzing Online: New Cincinnati Library Mobile App
\n(Cincinnati WKRC-TV CBS 12 © 02/02/2012)
There's something to be excited about today, according to Local 12 News Onli");
document.write("ne Reporter Katie Clavey. The Cincinnati Library has a new mobile app now available.\n\nAll you need is your library card number, located on the back of your library card, and your pin number. Once you download the app you will have the ability to search the catalog and place holds, check out library materials, find br...\n
Issue 9 committee travels with mes");
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\n(ThisWeek Upper Arlington © 02/02/2012)
The committee working to pass the library levy on the March 6 ballot has taken its show on the road.\n\n\nIssue 9 is a renewal, with no increase, of the Upper Arlington Public Library’s 2-mill, five-year tax levy. Proceeds of the levy represented 54 percent of the $5.8 million in revenues the library received in 2010.\n\n\nThe levy committee has been conducting community presentations since the fi...\n
E-books increasingly popular at Westerville library
\n(ThisWeek Westerville © 02/02/2012)
Every month, Jessica Curtis leads a new class at the Westerville Public Library that demonstrates how much the “Information Age” has changed readers’ habits and expectations.\n\n\nAfter winning a Nook e-reader at a library conference, Curtis is now the in-house expert on the device, as holiday sales of new tablets and e-readers have prope");
document.write("lled e-book borrowing at many of the nation&r...\n
Library restores Sunday hours, eyes upgrades
\n(ThisWeek Westerville © 02/02/2012)
In addition to restoring Sunday hours, trustees for the Westerville Public Library agreed last week to hire a Columbus architectural firm to study possible improvements to the children’s area");
document.write(", parking lot and facilities.\n\n\nThe moves were made possible by voter approval of a 2-mill levy in November.\n\n\nAt its Jan. 24 meeting, the board of trustees authorized DesignGroup to spend no more than $...\n
Cincinnati Library Named One Of Top 10 For Children
\n(Cincinnati WLWT-TV NBC 5 © 02/01/2012)
CINCINNATI -- Cincinnati's ");
document.write("library system can add another honor to those its already received over the years.\n\nLivability.com listed The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County as one of its Top 10 for children.\n\n\"The library's Children's Learning Center presents a comfortable and entertaining atmosphere for families. It features child-sized tables and chairs, a saltwater aquarium and mul...\n
Library director stepping down
\n(Tiffin Advertiser Tribune © 02/01/2012)
FOSTORIA - After a career lasting nearly four decades, Kaubisch Memorial Public Library's leader has stepped down. \n\nToday is the first day of retirement for Dee Conine, who most recently served as director, technology coordinator and system administrator. \n\n\"This was my first job after college, and I've been here ever since. ... Books and libraries have always been a very important part of my lif...\n
Medina library will save $200K
\n(Cleveland Plain Dealer © 01/31/2012)
The Medina County District Library will save approximately $200,000 annually after finalizing the refinancing this month of renovation bonds originally issue in 2003. \n\n\nAccording to community relations manager Heather Coontz, initial estimates projected a savings of $134,000 a year. A high credit rating from Moody’s Investo");
document.write("rs Service helped the system get a better interest rate and bond rat...\n
Traffic at library?s homework help centers up 41%
\n(Columbus Dispatch © 01/30/2012)
Slowly, students in need of homework help trickled into the Karl Road branch of\nthe Columbus Metropolitan Library today.\nA seventh-grader needed images to reflect the symbo");
document.write("lism in various Robert Frost\npoems. A high-school freshman struggled to calculate salaries for a business-math assignment. A\nhigh-school junior wanted to review math problems on a practice ACT exam.\nIn all, 23 students stopped b...\n
No levy in sight as library stretches its budget
\n(Coshocton Tribune © 01/29/2012)
COSHOCTON --");
document.write("State budget cuts the past few years have made the Coshocton Public Library staff look closely at where money is spent.\n\nIn 2009, after three weeks on the job, library Director Eric Taggart was faced with an almost 27 percent budget cut from the state. That resulted in administrative employees taking pay cuts and staff members losing on hours because operating hours were reduced by 13 ...\n
Schooler Family Foundation grants total more than $150K in '11
\n(Coshocton Tribune © 01/29/2012)
COSHOCTON -- The Schooler Family Foundation, based in Columbus, awarded the following grants, totaling $151,750, in 2011. Several Coshocton organizations received grants.\n\n? Clary Gardens Foundation -- $10,000 for a rose garden pavilion and pathway\n\n? Franklinton Cycle Works, Columbus -- $10,000 for operating support\n\n? Foundation of Independent Colleges -- $25,000 for 2012 Ohio Scholars program\n\n...\n
Library books $2.642 million general fund budget for 2012
\n(Cuyahoga Falls News Press © 01/29/2012)
by Ellin Walsh | Reporter\n\n\nCuyahoga Falls --The Cuyahoga Falls Library is in its best financial shape since 2007, according to its director, Kevin Rosswurm. \n\n\nOn Jan. 24, the library's Board of Trustees unanimously adopted a $2.642 million general fund budget");
document.write(" for 2012. The 11-member Board governs the library.\n\n\n\"It's higher than last year's [2011] budget by $216,300,\" according to Rosswurm, \" .....\n
Retired St.?C. library director now at Bellaire
\n(Martins Ferry Times Leader © 01/29/2012)
BELLAIRE - Once filled with just books, libraries has evolved with the times and technology,");
document.write(" now providing computers for public use, along with newspapers, and magazines. \r\n\r\nA staple in most, if not all, communities is or at least was the public library and the community of Bellaire is no different. After the dismissal of the previous director, the State Library of Ohio, located in Columbus, Ohi...\n
Some will see tax increases; others decreases
\n(Salem News © 01/29/2012)
LISBON - With the new year comes tax increases for some property owners and decreases for others.\r\n\r\nProperty tax bills for the first half of the year expected to be mailed out this week by the Columbiana County Treasurer's Office will reflect those changes, including self-inflicted increases in communities where voters approved new levies in 2011.\r\n\r\nThe following is a list of areas where propert...\n
Library hopes to expand hours
\n(Fostoria Focus © 01/28/2012)
3225\n \n\n By Alex Boroff\n\n Focus Reporter\n\n Fostoria library patrons will no longer be shut out of Kaubisch on Fridays.\n\n Though a specific date has not yet been set, the library plans on returning its Friday hours sometime in April.\n\n Restoring Friday hours was a big part of the library’s push for a local levy that passed in November 2011, but hours cannot be e...\n<");
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Kindles, other devices available to patrons of Wadsworth library
\n(Medina County Gazette © 01/28/2012)
WADSWORTH ? Beginning Monday, almost 100 electronic gadgets will be available for two-week check-out at the Wadsworth Ella M. Everhard Public Library.\n\n\nLibrary Director Allen Nichols said the library wanted to make the devic");
document.write("es available to the community, and there would be an emphasis on helping unemployed people be more technologically prepared for the workplace.\nStarting Monday, Wadsworth?s Ell...\n
E-readers popular at Claymont Public Library
\n(New Philadelphia Times Reporter © 01/28/2012)
UHRICHSVILLE — \n \n \n ");
document.write(" \n\n\n\n Claymont Public Library Director Donna Moody says she and her staff are ready to support fast-growing interest in e-readers, which allow a person to download, store and read digital books and other media.\n\n\n\n The electronic devices apparently were on a lot of Christmas shopping lists.\n\n\n\n “We just had an in-service day recently ...\n