Stark Library - Plain Community Branch
Services
Some of our services are unavailable at this time, but here's a list of things you can do in the branch:
- Browse, return, and check out materials
- Access public computers - available by appointment or walk-in
- Pick up materials from our holds shelf
- Reserve a meeting room
- Personal Services – please see a staff member
- Computer assistance
- Technology one-on-one
- Printing
- Copying
- Faxing
- Notary
Access
You can reach the Plain Community Branch using SARTA bus route 103.
International Baccalaureate Students
JSTOR provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines. It's a great source for student or faculty research. Available only in the Library or when connected to the Library's wireless service.
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Additional IB Resources
Literature Resource Center contains up-to-date biographical information, overviews, full-text literary criticism and reviews on more than 130,000 writers in all disciplines, from all time periods and from around the world.
Global Issues In Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of issue and country portals that bring together relevant sources, podcasts, video, and interactive graphs.
Opposing Viewpoints In Context provides information and opinions on hundreds of today's hottest social issues. The database features topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites in a user-friendly experience.
History
The Plain Township Board of Education approached the library in 2003 with a proposal to build a branch library that would serve both the public of Plain Township and the students of GlenOak High School. Final agreements were signed in 2005 and the branch opened in September 2006.
