Happy July 4th - Library News of Interest

Simmons HVAC is scheduled for service on Tuesday. Fans are going- hopefully the marble interior will keep things comfortable.

We now have off-site storage for discarded books and other materials waiting for the next FOL sale. Thanks to a volunteer group called Public Allies, our FOL group was granted 10 months of storage paid for at CubeSmart  across the street from SW. Our maintenance staff will monitor the garages at NS and SW and move whatever they can to the storage unit to keep our garage spaces cleared.

Rob is planning to ask the Friends for a replacement motorized scooter at SW. Hopefully we'll receive their support and have one available soon.

The SW circ and adult reference desks are now merged. Thanks to Shannon for her outstanding leadership planning that transition! Just a few more weeks until we have new flooring on "main street." Dan is working to get some bids on leveling the youth area floor at SW which seems to have sunk.

We have 3 new board members! Atifa Robinson is employed by UW Madison Extension doing nutrition counseling. Sonya Gaines is an LPN at Aurora working on her BSN. Chris Allen is Executive Director of the Kenosha History Center. We are thrilled that all three have or will be been appointed by the July Board meeting!

We also have a new member of the Foundation Board. Ben Anderson is an attorney at Anderson and Anderson Law Office, a firm started by his grandfather. Keeshia Jones was elected to be the next KPLF President at Monday night's meeting, Katie Chada will serve as VP, and Georgia Owens will serve as Treasurer.

It is possible as the city changes health care providers at the staff clinic that there will be no service available September through October. This will affect our annual HRAs. I'll keep you posted as I learn more.

Some sad news: Linda's mom passed away on Friday, July 1. We send out deepest condolences to Linda and her family. 

This week's Bright Spots:

From Amy Rae: "I'd like to nominate Katie E for a bright spot. She's taken on an absolute mountain of relabeling for YFS, and she's done such high-quality work. That might sound like faint praise - "how much work can it be, putting a sticker on a book?" - but the reality is that Katie catches mistakes and lets us know when she notices discrepancies in how things are labeled. She's helped us out immensely, and she's done it cheerfully. Katie's a KPL treasure."

A (June 23) note of thanks from Jennifer: "As I hear Southwest was also, Northside was overwhelmed with returns over Juneteenth weekend. I wanted to nominate the following people for Bright Spots, as they took significant time out of their days to help us in our shelving efforts: Nate, Alex L, and Kelly. Megan also emailed and offered to come help if we still needed it. Shawn and Sandy also helped cover the desk for an afternoon, after we had someone call in.

We are incredibly grateful for our supportive and caring coworkers!"

From Amy Rae: "Jason Holmes singlehandedly solved a problem that was stumping my colleagues and I, making it possible for us to finish a project we had to pause. He was super helpful!"

From Barb: Special thanks to Sandy for being such a great employee and the best teammate anyone could ask for. Thanks for your willingness to continuously learn, and for all your support that made the good things happen. We will all miss you very much! Hope you love your new job and come back and see us often.

Happy 4th of July, Everyone!

Barb