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Getrost, Christina D. – 1993
The Kent Free Library (Ohio) evolved from the Great Atlantic and Western Railroad Reading Room of 1875, into a municipal Carnegie library, and then grew to be a medium-sized public school district library, in the city of Kent, Ohio. Its original building has been enlarged through three separate expansion campaigns, in order to have space to house…
Descriptors: Library Circulation, Library Collections, Library Development, Library Facilities
Lescure, Susan D. – 2000
The purpose of this case study was to identify the factors that led to the formation of the George J. Mitchell Elementary School Library Media Center (Little Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey), and to give local historical reference to the community about the library services offered. Data were collected through literature, face-to-face interviews,…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary Schools, Learning Resources Centers, Library Development
Tristano, Debra A. – 1990
Historical studies of public libraries are important because they provide insight into the development of these institutions and serve as an aid to future researchers. This paper examines the development of the Tuscarawas County Public Library (TCPL), in Ohio, for the years 1937-60, in order to discover how the library's building, budget,…
Descriptors: Interviews, Library Administration, Library Collections, Library Development
Featherstone, Jan Alyce – 1990
The purpose of this study is to look at how the academic library systems office (i.e., an entity or group of entities within a library whose purpose is to oversee the hardware and software systems functions within its electronic automated processes and services for the use of the staff and public) in Ohio has evolved to become a library-wide…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Higher Education, Information Technology, Library Automation
Hampton, Karen – 1993
The purpose of this study was: (1) to examine the opinions of a selected group of public and private high school students regarding their perceptions of the level of accessibility to their school libraries (accessibility defined as times when students think they were allowed to be in the library); (2) to determine whether or not students feel the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Comparative Analysis, High Schools, Learning Resources Centers