Happy National Library Workers' Day!

Hello, Everyone

By now you have received cookies, balloons, and ribboned badges thanking you for your extraordinary service to the Kenosha Community. Thanks to Brandi and Michelle for planning and delivering on their promise to make you feel special today. I wish I could have been there to see your happy faces when they walked through your doors this morning. Instead, I was busy praising you to our new Aldermen during their orientation in Council Chambers.

I talked with the Aldermen about how much you do with the small budget the city supplies, about the number of people walking through our doors, the number of children who attend our programs, about outreach and customer satisfaction. The results of the Library Impact Survey are in, and they tell us that 88% of people who answered the survey say that the technology services we offer to our neighborhoods are very important to the community. Over 90% responded that the technology help they receive at our libraries is helpful. Wow!

I closed with the Aldermen by inviting them to think of us when they are faced with neighborhood revitalization issues. Chicago’s Mayor Daley believed so passionately in the power of the public library that when he wanted to revitalize a neighborhood, he built a library there. We are the community anchors, I told the Aldermen. Think of us when you think of education and job training. That’s what we do.

I hope you are as proud as I am to work in a library and, in particular, this wonderful Kenosha Public Library. Thank you for all you do to brighten people’s days and support their dreams.

Happy National Library Workers’ Day!

Barb