A Landmark Century at Mooresville Public Library
Oct-Dec 1911 Jan-May 1912 June 1912 July 1912 Feb-Apr 1913
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Citizen groups Petition for Brown Twp. $10,000 Grant application Furor over Town plan
& public first public signatures invited to support to Andrew Carnegie to purchase old M.E.
meet to discuss circulated Mooresville library Foundation Church site (next to
creation of Old Cemetery) as new
public library Mooresville Town library site (Feb 1913)
Board adopted
Library resolution to levy Library lot purchase
Commission tax to build library 30 W. Main St.
appointed (May 1912) public donations &
(Dec. 1911) 1st Library Board large donations by
appointed (May 1912) Arthur Newby &
Judge Smith MacPherson
(NO tax money used to
buy land)
Temporary library reading
room in I.O.O.F. Building
(2nd floor) (March 1913)
A Landmark Century at Mooresville Public Library
May 1944 July 1944-Jan. 1945 Nov. 1945 Feb. 1947 Nov.-Dec. 1947
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Adoption of Library board meets with 1st designated use of Standardized system for 1st Kindergarten classes
standardized practices Township Trustees of library basement as donating withdrawn materials offered in library basement
for materials Madison, Clay, & Monroe Teen Social Center (especially children's) to (early childhood literacy
withdrawal Twps to expand services (among other uses) schools or other libraries programs) (continuing into
to their residents the 1960s)
Magazine holdings
dramatically increase
A Landmark Century at Mooresville Public Library
Early 1960s Early to Mid-1960s Mid- to Late-1960s 1970s 1972
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Renovations to building: Year-round children's Library celebrates half a Development of outreach Pioneer Room (children's
New heating & A/C, story-times scheduled century of continuous library programs to the collections) (basement)
Expanded kitchen, operation (1966) community renovated
Basement floor replaced, Expanded programs
New front entry & stairs (summer reading, Staff & volunteers
movies, arts & crafts) increases
Auditorium (basement)
converted to Pioneer Substantial increase Library collection: 14,500
Room (full-time "young in materials and patrons (1969)
people's library" area) (during 1960s)
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MPL launches its MPL Director Lynn Indiana Library MPL constructs new addition February 27, 2006:
ACCESS library card Jurewicz co-authors Federation awards MPL (24,500 sq. ft.) Grand Opening of New
campaign promotes treatise, "High Tech, Outstanding Library of Library Addition
Library & local businesses High Touch: Library the Year Award for its Key New Features:
Customer Service ACCESS Campaign 18-station computer lab & Youth Services occupies
Legacy Links online Through Technology" 6-station computer mini-lab most of 1988 building
obituary database (American Library
created Association, 2003) Local Area Network (LAN) Basement & Ground Floor
which becomes a wireless computer access
standard library school Community Room available
textbook & public Significantly expanded for public reservation & use
library reference book shelving for all collections
on this subject
Study Rooms & Community
Library introduces Room added
playaways & DVDs
to media collections Young Adult & Indiana Rooms
Youth Services Area
A Landmark Century at Mooresville Public Library
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Sarah Scott Edwards Mooresville Public Library basement Madison Township Library continues to
appointed first librarian Library opens to the begins use for patrons use & support add materials and
(March 1913) public community and Mooresville Library patrons despite
organizational funding losses
Helen Hadley Ward Library collections: 1,143 meetings & banquets Library collections:
appointed head librarian (1916) 8,400 [1937]
(Aug. 1913) Borrowers: 2245 [1937]
4,000 sq. ft. building
(Space for 6,000 books on) Withdrawn materials
1st floor) donated to school
libraries
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A Landmark Century at Mooresville Public Library
June 18, 1948 Summer/Fall 1951 Dec. 1951 July 1957 Oct. 1957
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Library board votes to Library board allows 1st library book talks Children's collection Paved rear parking lot
upgrade MPL from donation of discarded at Mooresville rearranged planned behind library
Class III to Class I public materials to charities schools (Mrs. Fields) alphabetically by
library under new Indiana subject (until 1960)
Library Law (Acts of 1947) Mrs. Marguerite Fields
(Asst. Librarian, later
Head Librarian) is 1st
MPL employee to take
library school courses
at Indiana University
(graduate degree program)
A Landmark Century at Mooresville Public Library
1980s 1988 1990s 2000 2001
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Increase in collections size12,000 sq. ft. facility Library installs public Library pioneers early MPL becomes one of
constructed & opens computers & OPAC "push" technologies to the first public libraries
Purchase of microfilm & to public (at 220 West (online public access keep patrons informed in Indiana to install
microfiche reading machines Harrison Street) catalog) (Mid-1990s) via email about Library RFID (Radio-Frequency
(early 1980s) Cost: $800,000 acquisitions, programs, Identification) in
Library board holds and topics of interest collection security,
Mooresville Library District Library collections: first public meetings to circulation & inventory
merged with Brown Twp. 32,000 volumes construct library
(June 4, 1985) expansion project
(1998)
Cook Endowment
(Claire & Helen Cook)
for MPL Youth Services
programs & collections
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Construction begins on MPL becomes one of the Construction begins on Library embarks on MPL is pioneer in
Outdoor Kinder Garden first five public libraries in Outdoor Courtyard extensive use of online statewide consortium
(outside nature retreat Indiana to join the E.I. behind Library for social media (videos, of public libraries
for children's programs & (Evergreen Indiana) outdoor programs & blogs, instant messages, offering e-books &
special events) Open-Source Integrated special events Internet materials) to automated online
Library System (ILS) create global marketing readers' advisories
footprint & serve
patrons worldwide Library upgrades
computer resources
throughout library
Streamlined wireless
Internet access
Digital Microform
Scanner/Reader is
purchased with grant $