A little news for the week

FOL Book Sale @SW February 16-19. Please take a shift if your supervisor can spare you. It's a lot of fun and we generate a lot of money for the library. FOL has pledged $50,000 toward the new library. Help us get a little closer to that goal! Sign up here. Note that you need to create your own username and password.

I'll be pitching KPL to Carthage social work students later this month in the hopes that we can get another placement as wonderful as Savannah.

Coming up:

African American Read In (AARI) , Kenosha Public Museum  February 3rd
Library Legislative Day, Madison, February 6th
Spring Primary February 20th NS and SW

This week's Bright Spot nomination comes from Zander:

"I'd like to nominate Megan Nigh for a Bright Spot.
After the last book sale, we had boxes of books meant to go to the Sustainable Shelving Program. These were stored in the garage FOL area, and it was no small amount. There were over 100 boxes of books taking up much needed space for maintenance, donations, and weeded books awaiting the next book sale. While I'd been able to print off the delivery labels easily, it is another matter to black out the previous labels, mark the boxes for PINK designation, and tape the labels. While I was considering how I would fit this into my schedule, Megan approached me and asked if there was a way to help. She also needed the space for weeded books and thought the best way to open up space was to help clear it out. Together, this made the process much, much easier. Megan prepared nearly every box that was there for delivery while I scheduled delivery and made sure new boxes were on the delivery cart each day. What I initially thought would be multiple months of slow work shoved into my busy schedule became a few weeks of diligent effort. We had two full pallets of boxes as well as boxes on the floor, and now staff can make it to the back of the storage area.
I cannot express how helpful her efforts were. She used her time for weeding to accomplish this great task and help out everyone."