Wagnalls Memorial Library
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| Wagnalls Memorial Library | |
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| Location | Lithopolis, Ohio, U.S. |
| Type | Privately-established public library |
| Established | 1925 |
| Architect | Ray Sims |
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| Website | www |
Wagnalls Memorial Library is an American public library in Lithopolis, Ohio. Dedicated by Mabel Wagnalls Jones in the memory of her parents, Adam and Anna Willis Wagnalls, who were both born in Lithopolis, Mabel gifted it to the perpetual use of the people of Lithopolis and Bloom Township, Fairfield County, Ohio.[1]
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Mabel Wagnalls never forgot the modest village where her parents were born - Lithopolis, Ohio. It was her desire to build a memorial there that might testify to the people of this town her parents' interest in their welfare and her mother's desire to afford to others opportunities for education and culture that she did not have in her childhood.
Completed in 1925, Mabel dedicated the Memorial to the town of Lithopolis in honor of her parents, Adam and Anna Willis Wagnall. [2] The building and its contents were gifted to the perpetual use of the people of Lithopolis and Bloom Township, Fairfield County. It was free from all encumbrances. An ample endowment provided for its maintenance. It imposed no financial obligation upon the local community or the state.[3] until it started receiving public library funds from the state in 2004.
In the 1920s, Bloom Township school officials eliminated reading of the prescribed pupils' reading circle books from the course because of the great abundance of children's books that the library furnishes. The educational influence was evidenced in the growing ease and familiarity with which students made their selections, observed the rules in their behavior, and adapted themselves to the regulations of a well-ordered library.[4]
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