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SERVICE CENTER MAY BE CLOSEDFLibrary Services Threatenedter by forming the Southeastern Ohio Library Organizationtcenter infederally-financed Caldwell.SOLO now has trustees appointed from Harrison, Belmont,A cut in President Nixon’s 1972 budget, 25 percent under the 1971 budget for library pro-!(SOLO) which would replace the grams, may hit hard at Cambridge area library services.Miss Ruth Hess, head of the Ohio Library Services, has announced the budget cut would mean closing of the Southeastern Ohio Service Center in Caldwell.She said it would mean some 22 persons would lose their jobs at the Center and the bookmobile service out of there would end.liMorgan, Monroe, Noble, Wa- ^ shington, Muskingum, Perry and Guernsey counties and its spring meeting will be held soon. i .tinA.W. Marr is the trustee from Guernsey County.ajtctSnTri(1tiMiss Helen Sunnafrank, head librarian of the Guernsey County Public Library, said the cutback would be felt locally too.She said the Guernsey County library borrows anywhere from 500 tc 5,000 books annually from the Caldwell facility, mostly for p use in schools, and also makes '11 use of the Center’s films and a reference material.However, the local library n operates its own bookmobile C' service. j tlA determined effort is being made by area residents to offset possible loss of the Service Cen- ei
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Cambridge Daily Jeffersonian
Cambridge, Ohio, US
Mon, Apr 05, 1971
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