Mark R. Willis

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  www.gomang.org/08schedule_files/sheet001.htm - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 10/22/2007    Last Visited: 2/9/2008  

  Mark R. Willis, Community Relations Manager, Dayton Metro Library

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  www.bigread.org/br/About.php - [Cached Version]
  Last Visited: 11/25/2007  

  "We had a great response to the Big Read project last year," said Mark Willis, Community Relations Manager for the Dayton Metro Library, one of the sponsoring organizations of the Big Read.

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  Published on: 3/2/2006    Last Visited: 3/8/2007  

  Speakers: Mark Willis, Community Relations Manager, Dayton (Oh.) Metro LibraryWho's In Charge?I Am?!How to Be the Person in Charge; How to Train Your Staff to Be in Charge

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  Published on: 10/12/2004    Last Visited: 10/13/2006  

  Mark Willis was the main liaison for our work in the library, and rushed about to get everything we needed to make us comfortable.
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  The manager Mark Willis made sure we had everything and more that we needed and Gwen Owen, Jonathan Knight, Lindy Mcdonough, Cindy Profitt and Terrie Butera of the Community Relations Office were incredibly kind and helpful.
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  The monks performed a cultural pageant that night, and the library Community Relations Director, Mark Willis, said that it was one of the best attended programs they have ever had.There were about 100 people, and roughly 10 had to stand because all the chairs were full.I recognized people at the cultural pageant from most of the dharma centers in the area, and there was a monk in robes from Cincinnati who was from Bangladesh or Burma (don't recall for certain which one he said).

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  ALA | Monographs Meeting Highlights - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 8/16/2007    Last Visited: 2/12/2008  

  Mark Willis was the speaker (mwillis@daytonlibrary.org).This topic will be explored further.

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  ALA | PLA at ALA Annual Conference - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 6/22/2007    Last Visited: 2/26/2008  

  Speakers: Mark Willis, Community Relations Manager, Dayton (Oh.) Metro LibraryWho's In Charge?I Am?!How to Be the Person in Charge; How to Train Your Staff to Be in Charge; JW Marriott, Salon III

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  DDN | For a spell, regional bee looked like repeat - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 4/6/2003    Last Visited: 4/6/2003  

  A main sponsor of the regional spelling bee this year for the first time was the Dayton Metro Library, and spokesman Mark Willis, who greeted the contestants, said the library hopes to assume a continuing role in the annual event.
  
  Twenty-five competitors, all winners of local competitions, represented schools and communities all through the Miami Valley this time around.

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  DDN | Libraries feel squeeze of state budget cuts - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 3/31/2003    Last Visited: 3/31/2003  

  The pie is just too small," said Mark Willis, community relations manager for Dayton Metro Library, with 23 Montgomery County locations.
  
  Ohio's 250 public libraries had been funded at 5.7 percent of total state personal income tax revenues, but funding was frozen in June, 2001, and has decreased with the downturn in tax revenue, Willis said.
  
  The Ohio Library Council in Columbus said state library funding decreased 8.5 percent, about $40 million, from 2001 to 2002.Funding went from $496.5 million to $457.6 million, and two budget-correction bills are expected to reduce funding by an additional $37.4 million in July, 2003.
  
  The cuts mean no Sunday hours at some libraries, hiring freezes, longer waits for popular books, and delayed purchases.
  
  "We're really worried," Willis said."We're looking at a couple of cuts, one around $440,000 between now and the end of June."They could lose a couple of hundred thousand more.The library board has been looking at fund-raising possibilities - grant writing, special events and direct mailings - to replace lost revenue, he said.
  
  Of its $20 million yearly budget, 86 percent comes from the state and around $1.8 million from a .25-mill operating levy, which ends in 2004, Willis said."We think we'll be looking at an (levy) increase," he said.
  
  So far the cuts haven't caused layoffs, but "we're leaving a lot of positions vacant," Willis said.They've cut back hours for library aides.They're also ordering fewer books and materials, cutting training and travel and delaying repairs, though three or four leaks in the roof of the downtown building can't wait, he said.
  
  Some library systems, like Columbus and Cleveland, get half their funding from local levies, but systems like Cincinnati and Waynesville don't have local levies, he said.
  
  The Mary L. Cook Public Library in Waynesville has a shortfall of $46,000, 10 percent of its budget.
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  "I've been here for 16 years and this is the worst it's ever been so far," Willis said."It's hard to see a light at the end of the tunnel."
  
  Contact Katherine Ullmer at 225-2341 or by e-mail at katherine ullmer@coxohio.com.

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  DDN | Library cuts affect life story - [Cached Version]
  Published on: 5/21/2003    Last Visited: 5/21/2003  

  Added Mark Willis, community relations manager for Dayton Metro Library, "A rising tide should lift all ships.

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