The Elroy Public Library
501 2nd Main Street - Phone 608-462-2407
email elroypl2@wrlsweb.org
Library Hours Monday - Friday We hope
that this will make it easier for patrons to stop by after work, and to drop
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Assistant Librarian Sharon Cooper
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Thanks to several wonderful people, the Elroy Public Library has received donations to be spent only on books. One was $1,000 to be used for children's books, one was $20 for horse materials, and the other was $300 from MG&E to be used for energy-related materials.
Talk about a wonderful
challenge! Since all of the area librarians
just attended a book fair to show off the
best children's titles of the year, the
timing was perfect. It's been like
Christmas here as the new materials come
flooding in.
Thanks to MG&E: - Keeping the Lights On - Solar Living Sourcebook - Why Should I Save Water? - Saving Energy, Growing Jobs
Thanks to our child-loving reader: - Clarabelle, Making Milk and So Much More - Armando and the Blue Tarp School - Jack Plank Tells Tales - I'd Really Like to Eat a Child - Milwaukee Brewers - Max Counts His Chickens - Sticky Burr's Adventures - This Way Ruby - Yellow Flag - and lots more! P.S.
MG&E has also just
donated a new "Watts Up?" -
a portable
energy meter. You can use this compact
unit to see how much energy your
appliances are really using. The Energy
Meter may be checked out from the Elroy
Public Library for a week.
In honor of National Library Week,
the Culvers company sponsored a
drawing contest. Everyone who entered
received a coupon for a dish of frozen
yoghurt. In addition, 2 names were
drawn at random to win 2 special
prizes.
The winners were-
Abby Brandau, who won a camping
lantern
Owen Lewis, who won a green ball.
Congratulations to all of our
winners.
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(First in a series about the library’s centennial celebration) Elroy’s Carnegie
Library On March 8, 2008, the Elroy Public Library will be celebrating its centennial birthday. The Elroy Public Library is a Carnegie Library, one of 63 public library grants Wisconsin communities received from Andrew Carnegie. Only 6 other states received more Carnegie grants than Wisconsin. Andrew Carnegie Background (Second article in the series) Spirit of the Library Past I am submitting this account of a recent experience at the Elroy Public Library, although I don’t expect anyone to believe it. I’m not even sure I believe it myself. It began one evening when I found myself alone in the library … (Third article in the series) Important Women in Elroy Library Past In the one hundred year history of the Elroy
Library, there have only been six librarians. Recently, Edna
Roberts, the first
and longest serving librarian, made a spiritual visit to the library to
view the changes which have incurred since her resignation in 1951. Perhaps
she (Fourth article in the series)
Women in Leadership
at Elroy Public Library When librarian Ellen Gardner resigned in 1980, the Elroy Library Board needed only look to the Elroy Primary School to find its next librarian, Barb Delong. Before coming to Elroy, Mrs. Delong had been a medical technologist at Madison General Hospital in Madison. Her husband Dan accepted a teaching position here, and the Delongs moved to Elroy. (Fifth article in the series)
Remodeling the Elroy Public
Library
Since 1908, the Elroy Public Library has seen its share of changes. There have been 6 librarians and many assistants. The collection has grown from books to include videos, magazines, talking books and high-speed internet. Methods of cataloging and checking out materials have changed from paper and pencil to computer databases stored in another city. However, undoubtedly the biggest change occurred in 2001. In that one year, the Elroy Public Library went from a cramped building -- with lots of steps -- into a lavish building with no steps and room for many new community services.
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