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Congrats, 'Bus Metropolitan - 2010 Library of the Year

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2010 Library of the Year: Columbus Metropolitan Library

By John N. Berry III
Jun 7, 2010 10:10AM


"We have $40 million on the line. Our levy is on the ballot in November," says Patrick Losinksi, executive director of Ohio's Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), winner of the Gale/Library Journal Library of the Year Award 2010. Over the entrance to the 103-year-old Carnegie building that is the systems main library are the words "Open to all." The reasons behind CML receiving the award become clear when you hear Losinski elaborate on that motto.

"Those three words permeate our strategic plan. It's one of our values. It's a strategy for our virtual users, making technology open to all," he says. "On the other hand, I just told a local bank president that "Open to all" cannot be translated to mean all things to all people. If we do that we're going to be mediocre and average in a lot of things, rather than great for a few...
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