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AUDIO-VISUAL CENTER, WAYNE COUNTY LIBRARY. The quarters ore in a typical store frontage, which is reported "quite successful."
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by ALBERT L. GOLDBERG
Assistant Professor, Audio-Visual Education Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
and CHARLES H. JESSEN
Director, Audio-Visual Center Wayne County Library
Phyllis Talbot handles over-the-counter film requests. Mr. Missig is handling a phone request in the background.
Charles Worlond and Williom Miller, Wayne County Board of Education Instructional Materials Consultants, ore talking with Charles Jessen (right). Director of the AudioVisual Center.
WiiH JUST AN IDEA and two reels of a C;ivil Defense film the Wayne County Library began the operation of the Audio-Visual Center in August, 1953, to serve tlie audio-visual needs of the out-county area surrounding Detroit, an area comprising some 750 schools and a total population of approximately 800,000. To start the operation about 300 square feet was allocated in the rear of one of tlie twenty comity branch libraries.
In the spring of 1953, a few months before the Wayne County Library Audio-Visual Center was begun, the Wayne County Board of Education had appointed the first of two audiovisual consultants. They were to work principally with teachers in the outcounty area to improve utilization of audio-visual instructional materials. The library and the board of education have continued to work closely to improve instruction and education in the county and, since 1953, a large ineasure of progress can be observed not only in the extension and improvement of services provided by the .Audio-Visual Center, Wayne County Library.
Starting with one professional person with an audio-visual background in school work, the staff has grown to four. In addition to the director, Charles H. Jessen, the Center now has a full-time secretary, a booking clerk, and a filmstrip inspector. .As of lune, 1954, the Center occupies its own building of some 1100 square feet, including a storage basement. But the Center's growth and development in service are more important than the space it occupies.
Within the structure of the branch libraries the .\udio-Visual Center has worked intimately with the community