Tuesday, March 31, 2009

National Library Week Celebration

Greetings! We invite you to participate in our National Library Week Celebration. NLW is April 12-18. Anyone that comes in dressed for the theme will get a small prize; they will also have a chance to enter for a daily prize and then a grand prize!

Themes are:

Monday – Crazy Hat Day

Tuesday – Decades Day

Wednesday – Favorite Book Character

Thursday – Mismatch

Friday – Sports Day

Come in each day to see how the staff celebrates the daily theme!

Friday, March 20, 2009

New opportunity

It is with sincere regret and sadness that I tendered my resignation to the library board on Monday, March 16th. My last day at Wilmington PLD will be May 12, 2009.

I have made many friends during my tenure at WPLD! I will miss my wonderful staff and patrons. I will also miss my Rotary and Chamber colleagues.

I would like to thank the Friends of the Wilmington Library for all that they do for our libary. This dedicated group of individuals recently donated over $3000 to the library for the purchase of new materials and tables for our meeting room. I would like to encourage everyone to consider joining the Friends group. They meet the second Tuesday of the month at 6:30 in the library's community room.

I will always value the time spent at the library in my community! We have made a lot of changes in 8 years. I look forward to working with the new director as a colleague and as a patron, as I will still be living in Wilmington.

The Board of Trustees will begin the search for a new director right away. I hope that you will welcome and support the new director as much as I was welcomed and supported!

I will start my new job as Executive Director of the Three Rivers Library District in Channahon/Minooka on May 18th. Feel free to drop in and see me there.

Thank you for being such a wonderful community of library supporters!

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Joliet Herald Newspaper Article

Thanks to Mary Baskerville for the great article she wrote about the library! There are also three pictures with the article.

Visit http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/news/1459754,4_5_JO05_WILLIB_S1.article to read about how your local library is filling a need in the current economic climate.