Nearly an hour east of Cleveland, Madison Public Library sits between its middle school and high school. The town itself sits between nurseries and wineries. The largest township in Ohio’s smallest county, it’s unassuming, even with Exit 212’s newly erected Love’s Travel Shop sign cutting through the Grand River fog.
Yet, in the fall of 2022, Dublin City Library contacted MPL through Facebook. As in, Dublin, Ireland.
“I was over the moon. In the States is one thing, but never across the pond, never anything from the UK or Ireland,” says Shawn Walsh, MPL’s emerging services and technologies librarian. “They want to match exactly what we’re doing. They want to build a Stan.”
Stan the Tech Van is a mobile extension of MPL’s CreateSpace. Acquired last year using Federal American Rescue Plan Act funds from the State Library of Ohio, MPL purchased…
