COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY
Updated 05-May-2020.
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My botty best at summarizing from Wikipedia: the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML) is a public library system in Franklin County, Ohio . the library serves an area of 872,000 residents . it has a collection of 1,483,433 volumes, and circulates the Columbus Public Library and Reading Room was opened on march 4, 1873 . it had a collection of 1,500 books, including 1,200 from the Columbus Athenaeum . in 1906, the reading room moved to a James L. Grover served as the first director of the library, for a period of six years beginning in 1872 . it was constructed from 1903 to 1906 primarily using funds donated by Andrew Carnegie . library director John P Carnegie agreed to fund an additional $50,000, bringing his full donation to $200,000. Carnegie’s library was dedicated on April 4, 1907. Clintonville, Linden, Parsons, and Hilltop branches opened on October 4 of the same year. library trustees voted to change the name of the library from Public Library of Columbus and Franklin County to Columbus Metropolitan Library . since it initially opened, the Main Library has undergone four major renovations and expansions to accommodate the city’ in 2017, CML had 5.8 million visits and loaned out 15.7 million items . to attract young children and adolescent patrons to the library, CML provides Homework Help Centers at all 23 C due to the growing population of Hispanics and Somalis, the library has an extensive English as a Second Language (ESL) program at several branch libraries . the library coordinates with teachers and schools to provide Ready for Kindergarten Storytime is also provided to children with special needs . the Lobby Stop program is for senior citizens in retirement apartments . book by mail program started in 1977 . in 2004 CML started the program “Know-It-Now”, a 24/7 virtual reference service . the “proactive reference” approach ends the passivity of the reference librarians . CML has been listed within the CML was also named Library of the Year by the Library Journal in 2010.