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Byers, McClain To New Posts
The State Library Board at its
regular meeting June 14, 1983 elected
officers for the biennial term beginning
July I, 1983. Dr. L. Eugene Byers, Lou­donville
assumes the office of President
-- cceeding Bryce L. Weiker and Dr. Shirla
'.~. McClain, Akron was elected Vice-Presi­dent,
succeeding Warner R. Moore.
Hearing Results in Redefinitions
The Board also at this meeting con­vened
a hearing at the request of the
Perry County District Library, New Lexing­ton
for a redefinition of its library
boundaries as a result of school district
consolidations. The Board resolved that
8S clarification of the districts the
boundaries be redefined to include:
Crooksville Exempted Village
School District
New Lexington City School
District
Northern Local School District
(that portion in Perry County)
Fairfield Union Local School
District (those portions in
Perry County)
Franklin Local School District
(that portion in Perry County)
and
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Southern Local School District
(that portion in Perry County,
excluding the Village of New
Straitsville)'
The Board further resolved that the
boundaries of the Fairfield County Dis­trict
Library, Lancaster. be redefined to
include that portion of Northern Local
School District in Fairfield County and to
exclude those portions of Fairfield Union
Local School District in Perry County •
./L1SCO Committee Chosen
The following have
membership on the Ad Hoc
Committee for the LISCO
accepted
Advisory
Plan
Implementat ion: Ellen Be 11, Librarian,
Washington County Public Library; Dr.
Dwight F. Burlingame, Dean, Bowling Green
State University Library; Richard M.
Cheski, State Librarian; Dr. Ronald E.
Diener, Executive Director, OHIONET; Hugh
A. Durbin, Director of School Libraries.
Columbus Public Schools; Judy Garel; Linda
Harfst, Director, Ohio Valley Area
Libraries (OVAL); Steven Hawk, Director,
Akron-Summit County Public Library; Dr.
A. R. Rogers. Dean, School of Library
Science, Kent State University; Elizabeth
J. Sawyers, Director, Health Sciences
Library, The Ohio State University; and
Robert S. Tannehill Jr., Chairman, Library
Manager, Chemical Abstracts Service.
Several Grants Awarded
The Board, in other action, awarded
eight LSCA Title I grants at its meeting.
The Department of Rehabilitation and
Correction will receive a total of
$110,660 for grants to improve library
services to 14,000 people confined at
ohio's adult correctional facilities
including Chillicothe Correctional Insti­tution,
Lebanon Correctional Institution,
London Correctional Institution, Marion
Correctional Institution, Ohio Reformatory
for Women, Ohio State Reformatory, South­eastern
Ohio Training Center and Southern
Ohio Correctional Facility.
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