By LINDA HALL Staff Writer
STRONG -- The Friends of the Strong Public Library will have their first organizational meeting at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 28, in the library. Library director Cheryl McCleery has great ideas to expand the library's services, and she is eager to share them with the community. I'd love to have some of our community members' ideas for programs and services, so I'm really hoping for a good turnout," she said.
NORWAY - Norway Memorial Library's Young Adult Services is planning summer activities for area teens around the theme "Express Yourself @ Your Library!" that will include books, gardening, art and writing. Book Buzz, the book group begun in spring for teens in grades nine to 12, will meet from 3 to 4 p.m. Tuesday, June 23, at the library to discuss Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five.
No one serving on the East Dubuque District Library Board ever expected planning for the future of the library to be so hard. In a meeting held Wednesday, Aug. 27, board members asked: Is it in the best interest of the community to spend over $150,000 to update the infrastructure at the site now occupied by the library or should the library purchase other property with the idea of renovating the structures or building new?
WOODSTOCK - The Whitman Memorial Library board of trustees held the quarterly meeting on April 13 and on the same day, Frank Perham was guest speaker for the monthly program. He discussed mineral mining. The board is planning to offer a summer story hour program starting right after school ends. For more information, call the library at 665-2505. The program will include crafts and stories.
Lionel McColvin (1896-1976) is regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of British librarianship. In the specific context of 150 years of public librarianship in Britain, his reputation as a visionary influence is second only to that of the nineteenth-century pioneer Edward Edwards, while in the twentieth century his reputation is unsurpassed. McColvin was the major voice in the mid-twentieth-century movement to reconstruct and modernize public libraries. He is best known as author of The Public Library System of Great Britain: A Report on Its Present Condition with Proposals for Post-war Reorganization, published in 1942 at a moment of intense wartime efforts to assemble plans for social and economic reconstruction. The "McColvin Report," as it came to be termed, ...
The temporary relocation of the East Dubuque District Library to the former Liberty Bank building at 350 Wall St. has solved space problems and given library staff opportunities to expand services to the community. Library board members, however, know this solution is indeed temporary. The building, owned by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), is scheduled for demolition in preparation for construction of a second bridge over the Mississippi River. When that demolition may occur is "problematic," says library board member Pearl Rosemeyer. "At the time that the board met with state IDOT representatives prior to considering the move, (IDOT) could only" say it would not occur in the next five years. The rumor mill frequently pushes the number of years far in excess of that. B...
WEST COVINA - Plans to build a five-story building in the parking lot of the West Covina Library are slated to go before the City Council Jan. 17. Despite the objections of some library-goers, the Planning Commission recently approved a zone change for the area on the corner of West Covina Parkway and West Garvey Avenue South that would make way for a 147,000-square-foot building that includes underground parking, a plaza and restaurants.
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