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Item Public Libraries Need Friends: Aspects of the Friends of Mishawaka-Penn Public Library's Involvement and Importance to the Library System in Mishawaka, Indiana(H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Maehler, Alicia CaldanaroWhat does it take to be a Friend of the Mishawaka-Penn Public Library? Energy and interest. There are several levels of membership: Individual one- and three-year memberships; Family one- and three-year memberships; and Youth (K-12) membership. Every month, members receive Hi-Lites, the Friends of the Mishawaka-Penn Public Library newsletter. [See http://www.mppl.lib.in.us/hilitespage1.html for the latest issue.] Members who enjoy taking on leadership roles can serve on the Friends’ Board as president, vice president, treasurer, assistant treasurer, program chair, book sale chair, or hospitality chair. These and other active members as well as the librarians who help coordinate Friends’ activities are indispensable assets to the Mishawaka-Penn Public Library (MPPL).Item The Unserved Areas Issue: A Historical Perspective(H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Roblee, MarthaIndiana 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.”Item Friends of the Public Libraries, Indiana Origins and Outlook(H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Brown, Amme; Callahan, Melissa; Shively, Trisha; Stringfellow, Patty; Walter, Jennifer"Where there are friends, there is wealth," wrote Titus Maccius Plaurus more than 2,000 years ago (An Invitation). An advocacy group in Syracuse, N.Y., whose interest lay in the promotion of the welfare of its community's branch libraries and main libraries, took this sentiment to heart when they established their organization in 1922. They called themselves the Friends of Reading of Onondanga County, Inc., and in the process started a Friends of Libraries movement that has resulted in the strengthening of libraries nationwide. Friends of Libraries are very much an influential presence today, providing support for public, university, and special libraries at local, state and national levels.Item Table of Contents(H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Indiana LibrariesItem Cover(H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Indiana LibrariesItem WPA Library Projects in Indiana(H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Caudell, Marcia; Jessup, Ben; Jones, Deborah; Reeser, MartiFrom its birth in 1935 until its death in 1943, the WPA (the common acronym for the Works Progress Administration and, after 1939, the renamed Work Projects Administration) hired a total of 14,000,000 Americans for a wide variety of public works projects. This massive army of WPA employees and veterans represented more than one in ten of the 132,000,000 Americans counted by the 1940 census. Some economists argued that a cutback in WPA hiring triggered a downturn in the national economy in 1937. Of all the initiatives of the Roosevelt Administration, only Social Security surpassed WPA in terms of size and scope.Item Vendor Selection Using the RFP Process... Is it for You? -- One Library's Experience(H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Rumph, Virginia A.The following article is based on a presentation at the 1998 Indiana Library Federation Annual Conference given by Virginia A. Rumph (Serials Librarian, Butler University), Lindsay Gretz (Assistant Science Librarian, Butler University) and Eve Davis (Account Services Manager, EBSCO Information Services). The presentation and this article cover what an RFP is, the elements of an RFP, the evaluation process, advantages and disadvantages, a vendor’s wish list, trends, and final thoughts.Item Bookmobile Service in Indiana: Its History, Its Present, and Its Future(H.W. Wilson Company, 2001) Davis, Stephanie; Harnish, Cynthia; Wallace, JanetTraditionally, the bookmobile has played an important role in meeting the needs of the reading public and in providing information to a broad segment of society. But in the past few years, bookmobiles have fallen on hard times, and their demise has long been predicted. They have fallen victim to such things as the gas crisis, construction of branch libraries, and automation.