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1979–today
Television: The 1981 addition housed the library's Telecommunication Center, the public-access television operation now known as Access Fort Wayne, which cablecasts three channels from the Main Library.
Reading service: The Audio Reading Service began in 1979 as the Northeast Indiana Radio Reading Service, reading newspapers and books aloud for blind and print-disabled listeners; it joined the library in 2004, took its present name in 2015, and reaches some 80,000 people. Community radio station WELT-LP, 95.7 FM, also broadcasts from the Main Library.
Support and making: The ACPL Foundation, created in 1984, channels donor support to the library and funded PERSI. A MakerLab opened at the Main Library in 2014, with a satellite at the Georgetown Branch; in 2024 the library rebranded its maker spaces as The Studios at the Library.
Sources:
- Slater-Putt, Beyond Books (1995), ch. 3 and 5 — the Telecommunication Center and the Foundation's creation.
- Allen County Public Library — the Audio Reading Service's history and reach, Access Fort Wayne and WELT-LP at the Main Library.
- The Waynedale News, 30 August 2024 — the MakerLabs of 2014 and the Studios rebranding.