For this assignment I am applying for a $10,000 grant for reference services for my made up library in Hooterville, Oklahoma. Hooterville is a small town with a total population of 9,052. Our demographics are 79% white, 4% African- american, 7% Hispanic, 8% American Indian, and 2% other ethnic groups. the average income is $34,000 per household. 8% of the population lives below the poverty line and 6% of household speak another language other than English and their first language. Hooterville has a mix of small businesses and also a number of self employed household involved in agriculture. The three major employers are Northeast Oklahoma State Hospital, Hooterville Community College (enrollment 4,000) and the Canadian River Ammunition Plant, which employs 800 persons. Hooterville is located on state highway 12 about 15 miles from U.S. Interstate 44 and is about 60 miles northeast of Tulsa.
Hooterville Public Library is a medium sized library with about 15,000 items for circulation. We have CD's DVD's, playaways, audiobooks, and periodicals as well as monographs for circulation. We have 7 full time employees including a manager, circulation staff, a children's librarian, a computer lab technician and a reference librarian. We also have 4 part-time employees who work in cataloging and the business office as well as the circulation and reference desk. The library has a dedicated children and young adult collection as well as large print and two study areas. We have 10 public access computer which are available for two hours a day. The library also has WI-FI throughout the library and printing capacity. All library services are free and anyone who lives in the Hooterville or Miami County may apply for a card. In addition, anyone who live in the 10 county area served by the Northeast Oklahoma Library System may use all library service with that card. All materials circulate for two weeks and reference materials may be checked out overnight after 4:00 pm and must be returned before noon the following day. The library is opened 9 am to 7pm Monday through Thursday. Fridays and Saturday the hours are 9am to 6pm. The library is not opened on Sundays.
The grant will include $5,000 to improve our library reference collection. We will be purchasing new atlases, various dictionaries, auto repair manuals, an art encyclopedia, some antique and collectible guides, some legal self-help books and other specialized resource to add to our reference collection. The remaining $5,000 is for a a five year commitment to join the Northeast Oklahoma Library System Reference Consortium. This is a group of 30 academic, public, school, hospital and private school libraries who have joined together to pool their resources to have access to a large number of databases to serve the 10 county area in Northeast Oklahoma outside of the Tulsa metro area. Each library will contribute based on the size of their library and their needs. Hooterville has a service community of about 14,000 users. At Hooterville, we are requesting access to 8 subscription databases that will be available on our public access computers. We will also have access to 15 other databases on our staff only computers. The amount for these services is $1,000 and we are asking for funding for five years. In addition to Hooterville Community College, there is a public high school (enrollment 500), and one private high school with an enrollment of 124. Both high schools have libraries which are involved with Hooterville Public Library in a number of projects, but they will not be a part of the consortium.The community college has a large library which is open to the students and the general public and is a member. The nearest library to Hooterville are in Pixley( population 9,000 and Crabwell Corners( population 11,000. Pixley is located 15 east of Hooterville on U S 44 and Crabwell Corners is 18 miles southeast. Both of these towns have public libraries similar in size to Hooterville and both communities have community colleges. All of these libraries are members of the consortium.
At his time we don't have any plans to include Web 2.0 in our plans and are not requesting that any of the grant money be used for this purpose
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