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Staff and Programming Cuts Result
As a result of the failure
of the referendum to increase Operating Funds, the Library Board
was forced to make cuts in order to meet capital needs of the library
facility.
Permanent Layoffs
1 twenty-four hour per week Reference Assistant
1 fourteen hour per week Circulation Clerk
Reduced Hours
1 fourteen hour per week Reference Assistant cut to eight hours per week
Service Reductions
Weekend Reference Assistance no longer on Saturdays
Evening Reference Assistance only on Mondays and Wednesdays
No additional Internet computers
Programs Ended
Online Searching Instruction Classes
Letters to Read Preschool Program
Adult Summer Reading Club
Trustee Rose
Benedetti Retires Ending 29 Years of Service
Lifelong
Lyons resident Rose Benedetti retired in May with twenty-nine years of
service as a trustee on the Lyons Library Board. Former Trustee Benedetti is
also the author of two books on Lyons, Portage, Pioneers and Pubs: A History
of Lyons, Illinois written in 1963 with Virgina C. Bulat and A Village on
the River 1888-1988: A History of Lyons, Illinois in Celebration of the
Centennial of Its Incorporation. With luck, retirement will provide an
opportunity to update either or both of these remarkable works.
Library
Board Vacancy
As a
result of the election and trustee retirement, there is a vacant four-year
un-expired term seat
on the Lyons Library Board of Trustees. The seat is available to adults
residing in Lyons.
Interested residents should write a letter of application to the Library
Board Secretary
Charmayne Kriha, in care of the Lyons Public Library, 4209 Joliet Avenue,
Lyons, Illinois 60534.
The Board will review applications and schedule interviews in June.
The
Lyons Public Library serves a population of over 10,000. The staff pride
themselves on
being
service oriented and friendly. We provide the following services for
our residents:
Interlibrary Loan,
Reference Services, Internet access, adult programming
and story times for children.
The mission of the Lyons
Public Library is to promote interest and enjoyment of
reading
in children and adults; to provide materials that supplement the
local grade school, high school
and college students' learning; to provide materials to enable adults to
continue to educate
themselves after
finishing formal schooling; to provide materials for
adults to keep
themselves
informed on world events
and therefore, help them to
participate in a democratic society.
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