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NEWSLETTE of the OHIO LlBRAR
~ L)EtlfRY SERVICE
ASSOCIATION
IN THE so's
suite 409 • 40 south third street • columbus ,ohio 215 1 > 7980
Vol. 10, No. I
from the desk of • • •
A. Robert Rogers, Pres ident
THE MULTIPLIER EFFECT
What impact would adoption and funding
foc ORl lS and minimum support leve l s for
publ ic I ibraries have? What would be the
consequences in terms of
new jobs created? Purchase
of more I ibrary materials
and supp l ies? Improved i n­format
ion serv ices to I i­brary
constit uent groups,
s uch as small business?
Defin i tive answers to
these questions wou ld re­extens
ive research project after
funding and imp l ementat ion. But, we need
to have some idea now. A few rough est i­mates
can be giverM In 1978, Ohio ' s pub] i c
I ibraries, on the average, spent 53 . ~ ~ of
their budgets on salaries and 15.4% on I i­brary
materials . Col lege and university I i­braries
spent 53 .4% on sa lari es and 28% on
materials. [Source: "Summary of Ohio li bra­ry
Statistics - 1978," Ohic Directory of
libraries (S tate lib ra ry of Oh io, 197~p.
96.J Stat i st i cs for other types of li­braries
are not as complete, but may not
d i ffer too much. If we take 50% as a con­servat
ive average for sa laries and $17-20
mi II ion a year as the funding for ORl lS and
minimum support programs , then $8 . 5- 10 mi Il­ion
woul d probably be spent on salar ies and
wages . If we take the norma l ratio of one
professional to two support staff and est i­mate
average profess ional salaries at
S15, 000 and support staff sa lari es at
510,000, we arrive at roughly 250-300 new
professional and 500-600 new support staff
jobs . If these we re concentrated in one
" EACH ONE REACH ONE" -OlA
MEMBERSHIP DRIVE CONTINUES
1930
Wally White, Ch.
As you rece ive this issue of OHIO liBRAR ­IES
I hope you have renewed your 1980 OlA
Membership. Thanks and we lcome to a busy
OlA year in 1980! Unfortunately, th is is
the last issue that 1979 members wi II re­ceive.
Those who have not renewed shou ld
mai I their memberships by March I to insure
receiv ing the March OH IO l i BRAR IES newsletter.
As of ti,e end of January we had 1250 mem­bers
enrol led , and memberships a re runn ing
a I i tt le ahead of last year . However , new
memberships are not keeping pace wi th past
years.
Now that you have demonstrated your faith
in the programs of OlA , can you help a li tt le
further? Could you p lease ta l k to at least
one of your associates who is not a member ,
or who has not yet renewed. Te l I them what
OlA has meant to you and yo ur career.
"Each One Reach Oneil is the theme of our
membe r sh ip campa ign. Now t hat you have re ­newed
we covet your help in th is campa i gn.
Eighty per cent of OlA members do renew
each year . Once a I i brary employee expe ri­ence
s the programs, oppo rtuniti es and bene
fits of ou r· state organization , that li­brar
ian probab l y wi II remain a membe r for
life.
Wil l you help in the next few days to
locate those I i brar ians who need OlA, a nd
who are needed by the Associat ion to keep
our programs and bene fit s growing? Right
no,#, contact tha t person . And good luck . . .
) mun i ty at a manufacturing plant, we can An invitation . .. to invite yOUl"'
easily imagine banner headl ines in the 10 -
I "N I d t C 750 fl"'i('rlds to .join OLA . ..
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