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This 7 page paper discusses the Fort Vancouver Region Library District and the programs and facilities it has that are aimed specifically at children and teens. The paper also touches on population statistics and crime statistics for the State of Washington. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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7 pages (~225 words per page)
File: D0_HVfvrlds.rtf
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Library District is headquartered in Vancouver, Washington, which is just across the Columbia River from Portland, Oregon. The FVRLD was "established in 1950 as the first inter-county rural library district
in the state" (About the district). Since its founding, the district has grown to the point where it now serves "all of Clark, Skamania and Klickitat Counties, and the city
of Woodland and the independent Yale Valley Library District in Cowlitz County" (About the district). FVRLD comprises 13 libraries, three bookmobiles, and the operations center in Vancouver (About the district).
Through its libraries, the district provides "information resources and services, and community and cultural events for a population of more than 425,000 residents" (About the district). Physically, the service area
is "more than 4,200 square miles," including farms, national forests, open range, small towns, urban areas, and communities "along the Columbia River" (About the district). The fact that Fort Vancouver
is a regional library means that its users have access to the Internet, professional research personnel, "world-class research databases" and a collection that includes "more than 780,000 books," as well
as videotapes, DVDs, magazines, and audio books (About the district). The district has devised special programs for young adults and children. On their website, they have a "TEENS" section with
sections labeled "Dirt," "Hookup," "Inside Story," "Lowdown," "This is Serious" and "YAAB" (Teens, 2008). Each of these sections provides links of interest to teens; "Dirt," for example, has a section
called "TV & Movies" that includes links to local movie theaters; the Internet Movie Database; and websites for various television channels, like the WC, that direct their programming toward younger
audiences. In fact, all of these sections have links designed to help teens find information: databases to help with homework, links to teen organizations and so on. The section called
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