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Selection Policy - Comments - Children's Department - April 1987

These are comments about the selection policy in the children's department of the Decatur Public Library. Items discussed were positive reviews requirements, collection development, quality vs. demand, lower age for patrons, areas of limitations…

Tags: areas of limitation selection, Children's Department, Collection Development, comments, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, Katie Gross, lower age for patrons, personnel policy and public relations, positive review requirement, quality vs. demand, selection policy, sex and karate

Letter to Decatur Public Library - August 1995

This is a letter from a former citizen of Decatur praising the library. She compares it to the library she is using now in Colorado and Decatur is so much better. She thanks them.

Tags: 1995, August 1995, board of directors, Board of Trustees, Decatur IL, Decatur Public Library, John Moorman, Karla Walker, letter, praise of assets

Photos of the Children's Summer Reading Program, Magic Show At Nelson Park Pavilion.

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Photographs of the Children's Summer Reading Program, Magic Show held at the Nelson Park Pavilion with Bob Murray as MC.

Tags: Bob Murray, Children's Summer Reading, Decatur IL., Decatur Public Library, Franklin Street, library, Magic Show, Nelson Park Pavilion, Photo File: Library, Summer Reading Program

Church Covenant Card

This is church covenant card

Tags: card, church, church covenant card, covenant, Decatur IL, Henry Hibbs, Hibbs Personal Papers, Judson Press, personal collection, Philadelphia

Dr. Otis O. Stanley

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Photograph of Dr. Otis O. Stanley, prominent Decatur Physician. In 1901 he received his degree from the University of Illinois and during the next year worked as assistant in physiology at the university while working on his master's degree. He…

Tags: biography, Decatur IL., Dr. Otis O. Stanley, Herald and Review, Joseph Merante, Northwestern University, Photo File: Biography, physician, University of Illinois, World War I, WWI