Browsing by Author "Roblee, Martha"

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    The Indiana State Library: Partnerships and Cooperation Across the Library Profession
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2004) Hough, Andrea Bean; Roblee, Martha
    The Indiana State Library has been involved in partnerships and cooperative ventures with libraries and allied organizations and agencies for decades. Because of the Library’s unique role in providing services to both government and its citizens, these partnerships are integral to the Library’s functioning and support of information services throughout the state. Partnerships involve the commitment of Library resources, whether staff time, money, or the contribution of materials. The Library has made use of partnerships that result in better services to Indiana’s library community and to the people of Indiana. Projects and services resulting from these partnerships range from expanded genealogy holdings to public programming for library trustees to support of INSPIRE, Indiana’s Virtual Library. New partnerships are under development as well, and hold promise for continued improvement of library services across Indiana – an objective central to its primary responsibilities.
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    The Unserved Areas Issue: A Historical Perspective
    (H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Roblee, Martha
    Indiana has a long history of efforts to extend library service to all citizens of the state. The constitution passed in 1816 included a provision that, when a new county should be created, the General Assembly “…shall cause at least ten per cent to be reserved out of the proceeds of the sale of town lots in the seat of justice of such county for the use of a public library for such county; and, at the same session, they shall incorporate a library company under such rules and regulations as will best secure it permanence and extend its benefits.”