Storytime on the Village Green, 1940

Librarian Dorothy Grove Fouts of Worthington Public Library conducts a storytime for children on the Village Green in front of the James Kilbourne Memorial Library during the summer of 1940. Miss Fouts was the first trained librarian to work for Worthington Public Library. She joined the staff in 1937 as a cataloger and became director in 1938. Library service began in Worthington as a subscription library in 1803 when the settlers brought a collection of books with them, known as the Stanbery Library.

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