{"id":4056,"date":"2016-08-24T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-24T14:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.explorewestport.com\/?p=4056"},"modified":"2016-08-24T10:49:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T14:49:20","slug":"westport-public-library-board-village-of-westport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/westport-public-library-board-village-of-westport\/","title":{"rendered":"Westport Public Library Board \u2013 Village of Westport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-4057\" src=\"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2016\/08\/22.jpg\" alt=\"2\" width=\"526\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2016\/08\/22.jpg 979w, https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2016\/08\/22-300x223.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/files\/2016\/08\/22-768x572.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s hard to believe that the \u2018house of books\u201d now located at 3 Spring Street was originally housed in an abandoned butcher shop, lacking electricity and indoor plumbing.<\/p>\n<p>With a nucleus of interested and dedicated people along with strong community involvement the butcher shop was transformed into a small library stocked with one set of encyclopedia donated by the Lions Club, discards from the Toronto and Kingston libraries, as well as private donations. A Public Library Board was established, and the doors opened on February 18, 1947.<\/p>\n<p>The library now functions as a venue for community programs, and in 1997 came on-line agreeing to become a community access terminal.<\/p>\n<p>After 60 years of careful planning and hard work, tireless volunteers have made the Westport Public Library what it is today.<\/p>\n<p>Date :<br \/>\nTuesday, <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>September 13th<\/strong><\/span>, 2016 | <span style=\"color: #800000\"><strong>2 to 3 pm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Event location :<br \/>\nWestport Public Library, 3 Spring Street,<br \/>\nWestport, ON, Canada<\/p>\n<p>Contact :<br \/>\nPhone call: +1 613-273-3223<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; It\u2019s hard to believe that the \u2018house of books\u201d now located at 3 Spring Street was originally housed in an abandoned butcher shop, lacking electricity and indoor plumbing. With a nucleus of interested and dedicated people along with strong community involvement the butcher shop was transformed into a small library stocked with one set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,70],"tags":[1714,1749,1757],"class_list":["post-4056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-westport-on","category-westport-ontario-events","tag-westport-events","tag-westport-ontario","tag-westport-ontario-public-library"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.communityexplore.com\/new_sites\/westport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}