The Dickens County Spur Public Library has received an automation upgrade grant in the amount of $7,850 from the Tocker Foundation, according to library director Donnice Carruth.
The grant will be used to update the library’s system to the Apollo integrated library system and library services platform hosted by Biblionix. The grant will pay the migration fee from the library’s current system to the new system, a subscription to a two-way texting with renewal capability feature for five years, an annual subscription for catalog enrichment on the website for five years and for five years of service. Additionally, Biblionix is furnishing six extra months of service for free.
Carruth anticipates new system to be in place the first week of February.
“The Dickens County Spur Public Library Board of Trustees and library staff are delighted to be able to offer the citizens of Dickens County this new platform,” Carruth said. “Modern technology is what is needed to make the library current and inviting to the technological generation.”
The Tocker Foundation was created in 1964 to implement the philanthropic interests of Phillip and Olive Tocker. Phillip Tocker was a practicing attorney, but changed careers in his later years when he purchased the Waco outdoor advertising plant and later expanded to own outdoor advertising plants throughout the United States. His vocational career culminated to the position of president of the Outdoor Advertising Association of America. After retiring to Austin Texas in 1973, the Tockers actively pursued their avocations.
Phillip and Olive Tocker endowed the foundation with their estates in 1994 and 1993 respectively. After years of supporting a wide range of community-based causes, the foundation discovered a need in small, rural Texas libraries serving populations of 12,000 or less. In 1992 the foundation board decided to focus grant distributions in this way. The foundation partners with community libraries to meet the particular needs of the community.
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