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The Old Colony Library Network [1] (OCLN) is a consortium of 28 member libraries [2] located on the South Shore of Massachusetts in the United States. OCLN membership includes 26 town and city libraries and two academic libraries.
Library Web site Town/City County Friends-group link Consortium; Abington Public Library: Abington: Plymouth: OCLN: Acton Memorial Library: Acton: Middlesex: MLN: West Acton Citizens' Library Acton: Middlesex: Russell Memorial Library Acushnet: Bristol: SAILS: Adams Free Library Adams: Berkshire: Agawam Public Library Agawam: Hampden: Alford ...
The Thayer Public Library is a public library located in the town of Braintree, Massachusetts with 102,000 books, 200 periodical subscriptions, and 8,000 videos, DVDs, music CDs, and audiobooks. [2] The library is a member of the Old Colony Library Network .
There are three post offices in town (East Sandwich, Sandwich, and Forestdale). The Sandwich Public Library is located in the town's center, and belongs to the Old Colony Library Network, the Southeastern Massachusetts Regional Library System, and the Massachusetts Library Information Network.
The culmination of centuries of advances in the printing press, moveable type, paper, ink, publishing, and distribution, combined with an ever-growing information-oriented middle class, increased commercial activity and consumption, new radical ideas, massive population growth and higher literacy rates forged the public library into the form that it is today.
The history of libraries began with the first efforts to organize collections of documents.Topics of interest include accessibility of the collection, acquisition of materials, arrangement and finding tools, the book trade, the influence of the physical properties of the different writing materials, language distribution, role in education, rates of literacy, budgets, staffing, libraries for ...
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The Merrimack Valley Library Consortium (MVLC) is an American library consortium created by Nancy Jacobson and Evelyn Kuo in 1982. MVLC manages the resource sharing of 36 automated and partially automated libraries in Merrimack Valley region of northeastern Massachusetts, ensuring unified access to all of their catalogs, which represent almost three million items and more than six hundred ...