The Pekin Public Library surveyed local businesses about their needs, hosted a breakfast with businesses to show library resources, and, as a result, forged closer ties with the business community. Public Library compiled an extensive community profile. As a result, the librarian became the key contact person for industrial recruitment and was instrumental in attracting a manufacturing plant of a Fortune-500 company. As these cases demonstrate, libraries and librarians have much to contribute to small town revitalization. The current project was completed in1996.
Materials produced in the project are still available until supplies are exhausted.
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