October Program Highlights Investment Information

The Reference Department, with the help of local advisor Bob Collins, will present a program focusing on the library's collection of financial newsletters and how they can be used to make investment decisions. The same program will be presented twice,so more people have an opportunity to attend. The first session is at 6:30 p.m. on Monday, October 6. The second session is at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday, October 15. Both classes will be held in the meeting room.

"Ohio Indian Chiefs" Artist Will Speak on November 9

Artist Hal Sherman will display his portraits of Ohio Indian Chiefs and talk about his work at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 9. Sherman is a Shelby County native with a lifelong interest in Native American history and artifacts. He is a self-taught artist whose work has been featured on book jackets, in a PBS Simon Kenton film, and in a Canadian film about the Pontiac Indians. Examples of his paintings may be viewed in the Gallery on the Shawnee Bluejacket Web site.

Coming Attraction: Award-winning History Film

Rope-making was once Xenia, Ohio's largest industry, employing thousands of people at six rope factories. The library will show the award-winning documentary Ropewalk: a Cordage Engineer's Journey through History at 2:00 p.m. on Sunday, November 16 in the meeting room. The executive producer, Kate Hagenbuch, and her father, Bill Hagenbuch, the narrator, will be on hand to introduce the film. The film was produced by the Engineer's Club of Dayton Foundation and directed by Steve Fetsch. This year it won the Ohio Association of Historical Societies and Museums Award for Excellence in History Outreach.

Reading Clubs Get Lots of Community Support

Last summer's reading clubs had more participants than ever."Thank you!" to all the community businesses and organizations that contributed to Wright Library's Summer Reading Clubs for children, teens, and adults. Donations from the following establishments helped keep students and adults reading all summer!

• Adventure Golf of Centerville
• Ashley's Pastry Shop
• Barnes & Noble
• Big Sky Bread Co.
• Books & Co.
• Boonshoft Museum
• Buffalo Wild Wings
• Carillon Historical Park
• Central Perc European Café
• C'est Tout Bistro
• Cub Foods
• Dairy Queen
• Dayton Dragons
• Dayton Opera Association
• Dewey's Pizza
• Domino's Pizza
• Dorothy Lane Market
• Fountain Square Cleaners
• Graeter's Ice Cream
• Indian Trails
• Kroger (Stroop Rd.)
• LaRosa's (Wilmington Pike)
• Laser Quest
• Laser Web
• Magic Castle at Rollandia
• McDonald's Corporation
• Marion's Piazza
• Meijer
• Milano's
• National Amusements/Showcase Cinema
• Neil Armstrong Air & Space Museum
• The Oakwood Florist
• The Oakwood Register
• Oakwood Rotary Foundation
• Renaissance Festival
• Ritter's Frozen Custard
• Sinclair Community College Theatre and Dance Department
• Soccer Plus
• Starbucks
• Taco Bell
• Talbot's
• Target
• Trader Joe's
• Viking Group, Inc./Donato's Pizza
• Victoria Theatre Association
• Wendy's
• What's Poppin'
• Whispers Home

Public Libraries Return $3.69 in Value for Every Tax Dollar

This spring Wright Library worked with the Dayton Metro Library, Washington-Centerville Library, and Germantown Public Library on compiling data for Return on Public Investment: Valuing Montgomery County’s Public Libraries. The report concluded that the public libraries in Montgomery County return at least $3.69 in value for every tax dollar. This does not even count the non-quantifiable and intangible benefits, such as the pleasure a vision-impaired person gets from listening to an audio book, or the amount of money saved by patrons who use library information to make a better consumer or career choices. [Download the report]

Wireless Internet Access

Wright Library now provides free wireless Internet access. Patrons can bring laptops to the library and take advantage of the WiFi network to access the Internet on the main floor, in the Teen Scene area, and in the meeting room.

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