{"id":229,"date":"2009-01-21T05:37:12","date_gmt":"2009-01-21T10:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=229"},"modified":"2009-01-16T15:43:17","modified_gmt":"2009-01-16T20:43:17","slug":"toledo-lucas-county-public-library-branches-out-to-ut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/01_21_2009\/toledo-lucas-county-public-library-branches-out-to-ut","title":{"rendered":"Toledo-Lucas County Public Library branches out to UT"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library has partnered with the University to offer two extension branches on UT campuses to allow students to check out a collection of some 200 popular and best-selling books.<\/p>\n

\"First-year<\/a>

First-year pharmacy students Heather Dillinger, left, and Brittany Larkins checked out new books by Stephen King and Michael Flynn last week in the new Toledo-Lucas County Public Library section in Carlson Library.<\/p><\/div>\n

UT students, faculty and staff can check out books at the designated Toledo-Lucas County Public Library areas in Carlson Library on Main Campus and Mulford Library on Health Science Campus. Both areas are identified with banners.<\/p>\n

Officials from both UT and the public library want students and employees to have access to popular books in order to promote lifelong learning. Both entities point to a 2004 National Endowment for the Arts survey of literacy reading in America. The study revealed a high correlation between reading literary works and interest in civic and cultural engagement.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe study also found the steepest decline in literary reading often occurred among those age 18 to 24, the very group that traditionally makes up the majority of college-age students,\u201d said Dorcel Dowdell, main library manager.<\/p>\n

Dr. John Gaboury, dean of University Libraries, added, \u201cOur students, faculty and staff will enjoy being able to check out popular fiction and best-sellers. These are titles we typically do not purchase in academic libraries.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe look forward to a long partnership with the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library and the many benefits it will bring to the University and Toledo community,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

UT students and employees need their ID to check out items from the popular book collection. The books will rotate every month so that new titles will be available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

UT students and employees can check out best-sellers and popular books, thanks to Toledo-Lucas County Public Library’s new sections in Carlson and Mulford libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}