Snapshot Day – Wed., Feb. 10
Posted by eileen on February 5, 2010
Wheaton Public Library is joining libraries across the state in participating in “Snapshot: One Day in the Life of Illinois Libraries” on Wednesday, February 10 to show how important academic, public, school, special libraries, and library systems are to the state of Illinois.
On February 10, WPL will compile statistics, customer comments, photographs, and other data chronicling a typical library day. The results collected will be added to those of other libraries across Illinois to show how libraries provide invaluable services to Illinois citizens.
We really hope our loyal patrons will stop by. Libraries are more important than ever to our communities. We want all the citizens of Illinois, and particularly our Illinois lawmakers, to see what a typical day is like for an Illinois library. Lawmakers have reduced state funding that is vital to help libraries like ours maintain current programs and services, much less provide new programs and services, purchase new materials, and support the delivery of materials from other libraries.
In addition to facing state cuts, WPL is facing budget cuts from the City of Wheaton. When you stop in, please pick up our brochure, State of the Wheaton Public Library to get a more accurate view of how dramatically the library’s funding has decreased.
Your voice counts! Please stop by on February 10 and share your opinions. Also, if you fill out our Snapshot Survey on February 10, you’ll receive a coupon for one free DVD rental! Thank you for your help!
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I believe you also need to remember that college students use your services EXTENSIVELY in the summer when they are home. My own have checked out many many items (LSAT/MCAT prep books, assigned reading, books and music and DVD’s for enjoyment), used your research computers and librarians for help, or have just stopped in for a meeting place or to cool off! They will be using your services for job searches. You are an essential, central part of our lives – even at the college-student stage.
The city should stop robbing the librarys budget. The library should not just confine its funding campaign to just one day. it should utalize its patrons as volunteers to raise support
This would be a great time for us all to work together and push for what we should have had all along: a genuine COUNTY library system.
This would result in an enormous savings and would also improve service. It would allow us to place libraries according to where people live rather than according to city and village boundaries. It would also eliminate all the paperwork it currently takes to use a library other than your own, remove the need for extraordinary measures to ensure that only city residents get cards, make cost sharing fair across the county, etc.
Outside Illinois, this is the norm–and for good reason. It’s time for us to get in step.
I LOVE the library! As a family with three children (10, 7, 4), we use the library for a variety of reasons. We have a 10 year old with a voracious reading appetite. The library allows us to attempt to keep up with that appetite. We could never afford to buy as many books as she reads. As well, we are a home schooling family and use many, many, many books for our home schooling purposes. It helps us educate our children and I feel like I am putting some of my tax dollars to work! That makes me happy.
We use many of the other resources as well – audio books, play-a-ways, adult books, music CD’s, interlibrary loan, video’s, story-time, etc… The library is indispensable in our family and we are soooo thankful for it! Without the library and its resources, it would be a sad day in our house.