What have we been up to?

The Grant County Library Foundation board has met several times in the last few weeks.  Including a few training sessions with RDI which is in year 4 of it's rural training sessions.  Megan Brandsma, Foundation Chairperson, and Joanne Jones, Foundation Secretary, participated in the Leadership Development class last year.  This time the class focused on Community Collaborations.  Vernita Ediger taught both classes, and we learned so much from her!

Capital Campaign meeting

Just had a wonderful meeting with Linda Shelk from the Shelk Foundation and Gordon Gillespie from the Bowman Museum.  The information we received was tremendous, the food was awesome, and we had a great time.  Gordon's story of renovating and building onto the Bowman Museum is inspiring and just makes me more excited about having a place in our community to read, meet, and simply enjoy in my spare moments.  I can see myself sitting enjoying an afternoon reading a book or magazine, or maybe surfing the internet.  Maybe enjoying a chat with a friend or neighbor, in a common area at our new library.  There are so very many possibilities, open meeting areas, comfortable areas to relax, a place for our kids to use computers.  Just so many possibilities for our entire community!  Can you imagine a library like this one maybe?

What do you imagine a new library looks like?  What do you think it would mean to have a new place to meet or maybe a new focus in our community?  Can you see a new library centrally located close to the bus hub in John Day?

Architects Promotional Photos

These photos were presented to the Library Board following a study done by the architects who helped else choose the best site for our future library. They are just to give you an idea of what other communities in our area have done. We are particularly interested in creating a library that can be manned by the staff we currently have, that it be energy efficient, ADA compliant, and in a central location so that it will be accessible to all.