[or-roots] Marion County Public Library info

[Bill & Chris Strickland]

Eleven counties* -- I had no idea!

Jim Scheppke, the State Librarian, wrote:
>  
> Unfortunately,
> Marion County is one of 11 Oregon counties without countywide public
> library service.  There are five city-operated libraries and one
> district library in Marion County.  The 99,418 Marion County citizens
> who live outside of these jurisdictions have to pay a library card fee
> to make full use of the libraries.  In the 11 counties*, there are
> nearly 326,000 Oregonians without public library service.
> 
> Libraries in Marion County do allow adults outside of the city and
> district boundaries to check out one book at a time, and they do
> provide free cards to children.  There are currently efforts underway
> to form one or more new library districts in Marion County so that 
> more citizens here could receive the full range of library services.

*Clatsop, Columbia, Curry, Jefferson, Lane, Linn, Marion, Morrow, Polk,
Wheeler, Yamhill.

and from the folks at OPEN (Oregon Public Electronic Network) which
offers individual Internet accounts through the Marion-Salem Data
Center,

LIBRARY at mail.open.org wrote:
> 
> Several cities in Marion County - including Salem, Woodburn & 
> Silverton - have public libraries.  They are part of the Chemeketa 
> Cooperative Regional Library Service.
> 
> http://www.ccrls.org/about.htm
> 
>  "(CCRLS) was founded in 1973 to cooperatively share information
> resources. Librarians of Yamhill, Polk, Marion and parts of Linn
> counties are working together to expand the number and kinds of
> materials and the reference services available to you.
> Today CCRLS includes 17 public libraries in the four-county area, as
> well as Chemeketa Community College Library, serving nearly 350,000
> people with resources of more than 1,000,000 books and audio-visual
> materials.
> CCRLS contributes to the support of your public library system and
> helps provide a regional library card that can be used at any CCRLS
> library."
> 
> If you wish a Salem Public Library card, for instance, but are not a
> Salem resident, you can get a non-resident card, for use in the CCRLS
> system for $70. a year.

> Patrons of the Clackamas County Library System that live outside of 
> eligible areas must pay an annual fee of $75 to get a library card. 
> The fee is charged to match an estimated amount that residents pay in 
> property taxes for the service.

Also, all Salem area residents who live outside the Salem city limits
pay $25.00 to obtain a Salem Public Library card for their household.

fwiw,

Bill Strickland