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The Wilsonville Public Library (WPL) is the single-location public library of the city of Wilsonville in the U.S. state of Oregon. Established in 1982, the library moved to its present location near Wilsonville Memorial Park in 1988. WPL is a part of the Library Information Network of Clackamas County and serves a population of about 21,900. The library has approximately 155,000 items in its collection with a total circulation of approximately 515,000. ==History== Wilsonville was incorporated in 1969, and in February 1982 dedicated a library.〔〔 Prior to 1982, library services were provided by the county via a bookmobile. Phila Simmons served as the first librarian of Wilsonville's public library. At that time the library was located on the grounds of the old Wilsonville Grade School on Boones Ferry Road owned by what was then the West Linn School District .〔〔 Wilsonville residents passed a measure in June 1987 that provided $2,225,000 for the city to build a library building and buy to add to Wilsonville Memorial Park. In December 1987, the city started construction on a new library building to be built on at the northwest corner of Memorial Park.〔 William L. Lonigan General Contractors Inc. built the new library, designed by Nagao & Oroyan Associates, for a contract price of approximately $760,000.〔 Part of the funding came from a $96,000 federal grant, and the new building was expected to handle the city's growth for 15 years, and it was also designed to be expanded. The new library was designed to have and include a conference room, children’s area, and a large meeting room.〔 While under construction, the city commissioned a sculpture of author Walt Morey to be paid for by the Friends of the Wilsonville Library. The tall bronze figure cost $7,500 and honored the Wilsonville area resident who wrote novels such as ''Gentle Ben''.〔 The library’s children’s room was also named after the author, and includes a bronze plaque.〔〔 Wilsonville’s new library building opened on August 23, 1988, at a cost about $900,000. The Walt Morey statue by Jerry Joslin was dedicated on December 18, 1988. In 1990, Steve Turner was hired as the library’s new director to replace Phila Simmons. Local employer Fujimi America Inc. donated approximately 1,500 Japanese books and money to the library in May 1991. The library started being open on Sundays in 1994, but only during the school year, after Clackamas County passed a library operating levy. Wilsonville sent a bond measure to the voters in September 1995 for $3.9 million to be used to expand the library building, which at that time held 35,000 books.〔 Voters rejected the measure, along with a measure to improve Memorial Park. In 1998, the library started offering passes to cultural institutions in the Portland metropolitan area. The city went to voters again in November 2000 with a $4 million measure designed to expand the library four-fold, and this time the measure passed. In August 2001, construction began on the expansion designed by Rich Turi that had construction scheduled for completion in May 2002.〔 Both InFocus and OrePac Building Products donated equipment for use in the expanded facility. Starting in 2002 the library offered story time for children in Spanish, and in 2005 brought in Claudia Renata Osorio in an attempt to increase the number of people attending the sessions. The Wilsonville Public Library Foundation paid for a ceramic mural in the children’s area of the library added in 2004. On December 21, 2003, Patrick Duke replaced Steve Turner as the library’s director. The Library Foundation attempted a fundraiser in 2005 where participants paid for a tour of homes that used a line of paint from Devine Color. An attempt by the city to raise property taxes in November 2006 was defeated by voters, which led to cuts in the hours of the library. The library received a grant in 2008 to expand its out-reach program at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility, a women’s prison in Wilsonville. The $10,000 grant allowed for additional training and books for the program, entitled Book Bridges, designed to build and strength the connection between infants and their mothers who are serving time in prison.〔 Also in 2008, the library’s Storytime Collection was chosen by the Oregon State Library as one of the outstanding projects of the year. 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「Wilsonville Public Library」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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