Westerville Public Library

The Westerville Public Library serves the community of Westerville, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Westerville is part of both Franklin County and Delaware County.

In late 2004, the Westerville Public Library (WPL) started a renovation that was completed in May 2006.

In 2005, the library loaned more than 1.7 million items to its 78,000 cardholders. Total holdings are over 347,000 volumes with over 500 periodical subscriptions.cite web |url=http://winslo.state.oh.us/publib/2005_stats_by_county.xls |title=2005 Ohio Public Library Statistics:Statistics by County and Town |accessdate=october 30 |accessyear=2006 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=State Library of Ohio |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate=] The WPL has been recognized as being on the "cutting edge" in the technology field; as one study notes, "it was the first Ohio library to provide public internet access, the first to have a Web-based catalog, the first to implement self-check machines, etc." [Jerry Kline & Don Barlow, Integrated Ecommerce in the Library: A Software Development Partnership Between Innovative Interfaces and the Westerville Public Library, Ohio, in Library/Vendor Relationships 137, 152 (Sam Brooks & David H. Carlson eds. 2006)]

Anti-Saloon League Museum

The Library is also the home of a museum for the Anti-Saloon League, a famous American temperance organization that was established in Oberlin, Ohio on May 24, 1893 and dissolved in 1933. The organization was established to "work for unification of public anti-alcohol sentiment, enforcement of existing temperance laws, and encourage the enactment of further anti-alcohol legislation."cite web |url=http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/ |title=Anti-Saloon League |accessdate=december 25 |accessyear=2006 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Westerville Public Library |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate=] The city of Westerville, Ohio was dry for well over a century. Westerville was once called the "dry capital of the world"cite web |url=http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=820 |title=Ohio History Central |accessdate=december 25 |accessyear=2006 |author= |last= |first= |authorlink= |coauthors= |date= |year= |month= |format= |work= |publisher=Ohio History Encyclopedia |pages= |language= |archiveurl= |archivedate=] , however it has recently relinquished that title as the first legal drink in recent times was served in Westerville in 2006.cite web |url=http://www.thisweeknews.com/?sec=westerville&story=sites/thisweeknews/121406/Westerville/News/121406-News-279244.html |title=Uptown alcohol sales:Merchants say area is revitalized
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See also

*Prohibition
*Anti-Saloon League

References

External links

* [http://www.westervillelibrary.org/ Westerville Public Library]
* [http://catalog.westervillelibrary.org/programs Westerville Public Library Programs]
* [http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us/AntiSaloon/history/history.html Anti-Saloon League]