The Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry County Library, Ontario

Ontario

Ontario is a province of Canada, located in east-central Canada. It is Canada's most populous province and second largest in total area. It is home to the nation's most populous city, Toronto, and the nation's capital, Ottawa....

, Canada

Canada

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, was established in 1971, the SD&G County Library grew from the merger of seven existing libraries

Library

In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed. Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services...

 located in a number of small rural communities of Eastern Ontario

Eastern Ontario

Eastern Ontario is a subregion of Southern Ontario in the Canadian province of Ontario which lies in a wedge-shaped area between the Ottawa River and St. Lawrence River...

, Canada: Lancaster, Ingleside

Ingleside, Ontario

Ingleside is a small town in Eastern Ontario, Canada.When Farran's Point was flooded as part of The Lost Villages, the businesses of Farran's Point were moved to Ingleside....

, Newington (ceased 1998), Morrisburg, Chesterville, Winchester and South Mountain. Added in the same year were branches in Maxville and Alexandria, followed by Long Sault (1972); Crysler (1973); Moose Creek (ceased 2004), Avonmore, St. Andrews, Williamstown (1975); Brinston (1976–1998); Finch and Dalkeith (1978); Williamsburg (1979); Morewood (1986); Glen Robertson (1988–1998); Lancaster Township (1992–2001); and Iroquois (1998).

Today the SD&G County Library consists of 18 Branches covering 2,500 square kilometres, and serving a population of 64,000. In addition to conventional book lending services the Library offers free high speed internet access; digital downloading; free wireless access, a variety of topical databases; programmes; CNIB (Canadian National Institute for the Blind

Canadian National Institute for the Blind

CNIB is a volunteer agency and charitable organization dedicated to assisting Canadians who are blind or living with vision loss, and to provide information about vision health for all Canadians...

) collections and other accessible services. Operations of the County Library are centralized and run out of the Library's Administration Office located in Cornwall, Ontario

Cornwall, Ontario

Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada and the seat of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry, Ontario. Cornwall is Ontario's easternmost city, located on the St...

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The Library's collections consist of audiobooks, print material, and digital resources. There are a total of 118,593 items in the collection. The system is staffed by 2 professional librarian

Librarian

A librarian is an information professional trained in library and information science, which is the organization and management of information services or materials for those with information needs...

s, 6 Library Technicians and 48 public service staff.