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The Weber County Library System (WCLS) is a public library system located in northern Utah. The WCLS serves a population of approximately 213,000 Weber County residents, with interlocal agreements, extending access to 330,000 residents in surrounding counties. The WCLS consists of a Main Library in Ogden, and four Branch Libraries located in Roy, North Ogden, Huntsville, and Washington Terrace. ==History== On January 22, 1864, the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of Utah created the first Ogden Library Board. Because there was no provision allowing local governments to levy a specific tax in support of a public library, local businessmen and public-spirited citizens provided funding for Ogden's first library (). While it is true that library service in Ogden City had its beginnings in the 1860s, it was not until 1903 that the Ogden Carnegie Free Library, the first public library building in Utah, opened its doors. In 1968 the Weber County Main Library was dedicated, and the Carnegie Free Library's rich historical collection became the core resource of this new flagship of Utah's first county wide system. This collection has since been systematically enhanced, facilities added, and innovative programs have been created and honed to continually improve services to area residents (). Today, the WCLS, like its predecessor, serves the community not as a circulating library specializing in popular reading materials, but as a community reference, information, and literacy center. The WCLS has also evolved into a regional resource center, serving residents of six northern Utah counties (). One of the Weber County Library's primary strengths is its periodical collection. This unique collection has a continuous run of titles from Pooles Index, and the indices that superseded it, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. The facility houses an extensive collection of materials on local and state history, and an in-depth selection of fiction works by Utah and regional authors. The Main Library also maintains a non-circulating Special Collection that contains thousands of important, unique, and mostly out-of-print titles on topics of importance to Utah and the West. The WCLS serves a population of approximately 213,000 Weber County residents (), with interlocal agreements, extending access to 330,000 residents in surrounding counties. The WCLS consists of a Main Library and a Public Law Library in Ogden, and three Branch Libraries located in surrounding cities. Two additional branch libraries are planned in the next few years. The Library has approximately 100 staff members and an annual operating budget of just over $6,500,000. The WCLS is also supported by an active Friends of the Library organization; a potent Development Foundation, which provides money for capital projects; and a dedicated corps of more than 125 volunteers who work side-by-side with the staff as literacy tutors, library specialists, and maintenance staff. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Weber County Library System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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