The Kansas City Public Library dates back to 1873 when the Kansas City Board of Education resolved to begin a public library. Today, 130 years later, the Library system is made up of ten locations - the Central Library and nine branches - and serves 239,000 in-district customers and approximately a million and a half from the surrounding metropolitan area. More than 1,600,000 items comprise the collection including books, audios, videos, CDs, magazines and newspapers, local history materials and the resources of the World Wide Web. Customers may also use public computers, attend children and adult programs, and schedule any of the system's community meeting rooms. The Kansas City Public Library is the keeper of a rich collection of words, ideas and images - a retrospective of the world's past, present and future. The Library continues to evolve as a free multidimensional place for all people to access its resources and share in community experiences.
The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford. It is also a copyright deposit library and its collections are used by scholars from around the world. The buildings within the central site include Duke Humfrey's Library above the Divinity School, the Old Schools Quadrangle with its Great Gate and Tower, the Radcliffe Camera, Britain's first circular library, and the Clarendon Building. In addition, the Bodleian consists of nine other libraries, in separate locations in Oxford: the Bodleian Japanese Library, the Bodleian Law Library, the Hooke Library, the Indian Institute Library, the Oriental Institute Library, the Philosophty Library, the Radcliffe Science Library, the Bodleian Library of Commonwealth and African Studies at Rhodes House and the Vere Harmsworth Library.
The mission of the Milwaukee Public Library Foundation is to provide essential support through private contributions for books, materials, programs, and library facilities to ensure the Milwaukee Public Library's continued standing as a great library responsive to community needs. The foundation was established in 1988 and continues its original vision of generating private-sector support to supplement tax-based funding. The result has been improved collections, expanded programs, enhanced services, and renovated buildings. But the credit for the foundation's impact belongs mainly to the people of Milwaukee. Over the years, thousands of generous individuals, corporations, and foundations have demonstrated their deep commitment to the Milwaukee Public Library by donating to the foundation.
The new Hamilton Public Library will provide consistent services throughout the city, taking neighborhood needs into consideration. The primary difficult in unifying library services lies not in the pronouncement that such unification will occur but in the enormous number of administrative details required in order to accomplish this task. For example, one goal of the new library system is to reach out to children in schools and to let them know what the library can offer. As a result, the number of staff providing children's services has to increase so that schools can be visited where no such visits occurred before. Since no additional staff will be added to the overall library system, staff have to be redeployed and some services may be deleted. We have consulted trustees and staff from other municipalities where amalgamation has occurred. We have seen situations where, four and five years after amalgamation, staff still do not know the unified service goals of their new organization nor do they know what permanent duties they are expected to perform, or where they might work. The Hamilton Public Library Board commits itself to make decisions quickly in order to minimize the period of uncertainty and speculation that staff justifiable feel. We will unify our services and our staff by: Ensuring that the services we provide transcend all former municipal boundaries; Ensuring that our collections are accessible throughout the new city; Ensuring that each library branch meets a high standard for furnishings, cleanliness, signage, and seating; Creating a single set of job descriptions and responsibilities for our staff; Allocating our staff in accordance with a common set of criteria; Training our staff so that they can meet established service levels; Providing staff with clear, unified policies and procedures; Providing staff with the ability to fill future library positions by upgrading their educational qualifications; Paying all staff in accordance with a common scale by January 1, 2003. Moving toward a common set of policies that govern labour issues.
http://www.library.barrie.on.ca
Barrie Public Library is one of the busiest spots in our city, with over 2,000 people a day coming through our doors. People visit us to check out leisure reading materials, to find business information, for help with homework, and a myriad other reasons. We also offer great programmes for people of all ages, and we host some great events here at your library.
http://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org
The Berkeley Public Library is developing a strategic plan to help focus resources on delivering services most needed and desired by members of the community for the next three years. Please assist in determining service priorities by taking this survey, indicating your current use of the library and what materials, services, and programs you would like to see in the branches and in the central library. Please take our survey to help us better serve you.
The mission of the Fairfax County Public Library is to enrich individual and community life by providing and encouraging the use of library resources and services to meet the evolving educational, recreational, and informational needs of the residents of Fairfax County and Fairfax City. The library is comprised of eight regional branches, 12 community branches, and the Access Services branch, which assists people with disabilities. The system holds nearly three million books, periodicals, and other items; 282,885 books and other items were bought or replaced last year. The library serves more than 630,000 registered users, enjoys more than five million visits to our branches, provides more than 11 million loans, and it receives 2.1 million user visits to the library's Web site at www.fairfaxcounty.gov/library.
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