Ohio History Journal

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OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL

OHIO STATE LIBRARY CENTENNIAL

The one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the Ohio

State Library was observed on the evening of August 10, 1917.

No special significance attached to this particular date. It is

not known just when the State Library first opened. It was

doubtless available for the

use of the general assembly

at the regular session which

began December 1, 1917.

Provision had been made for

it and the initial supply of

books purchased by Governor

Worthington much earlier in

the year as will be learned

from the addresses on the fol-

lowing  pages.   The   date

chosen for this celebration

was therefore not inappro-

priately between the anni-

versary of the purchase of the

first books and the opening

of the library.

The first summer library

school held under the auspices

of the Board of Library

Commissioners closed August

11, 1917. Those in attendance were thus enabled to be present

at the meeting.

Representatives of the public library and the library of the

Ohio State University were also present and a goodly number

of others interested in the State Library and its work.

State Librarian C. B. Galbreath presided. He stated that

of the twenty-four persons who had previously held the position

(96)