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Thank you, Hamilton College Students! |
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From l to r:
Mike Reyes,
Grace Pezzeminh,
Emily Richey,
Lauren Brady,
Sarah Fobes,
Curren Krasnoff,
Katie Hee,
Alex Gioia,
Michael Arroyo,
Greg Newton,
Lauren Marra
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This year Dunham Public Library participated in Hamilton College’s Community Outreach and Opportunity Project called Hamilton Serves! Scheduled during the first year students’, the Class of 2014, orientation week, it is a program which allows new students to become familiar with their new community and at the same time provide needed helping hands to a local organization.
What a fine group of young volunteers they were! In the matter of a few hours they managed to paint the computer room, re-arrange the document archives in the basement and organize many, many yards of books in both the adult and children’s areas.
Kelsey Craw, Hamilton’s student intern and organizer of the event states: “This is a great opportunity for our new students to become more familiar with the Mohawk Valley and learn about the work that happens at your agency. In addition, we hope it will open the door to future collaboration.”
Library Director, Judy Jerome said: “With good humor and good will, the students lent their muscle to the tasks that they were assigned. Volunteers like these young people are priceless.”
The students were particularly interested in the fact that George Dunham, the benefactor of the Library, was a Hamilton College alumni. During a tour of the Library, they were especially interested in some shelves of old Hamilton College yearbooks from our Dunham collection.
Somehow we feel that George Dunham would be pleased by the collaboration between the Library which he created and bears his name and his beloved alma mater, Hamilton College.
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Library Board President Statement: August 4, 2010 |
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This is the statement of Board President, Patricia Samarco, in response to the public discussion at the Dunham Public Library Board meeting on August 4, 2010.
Address by
Dunham Public Library Board President, Patricia Samarco
Dunham Public Library Board Meeting: 4 August, 2010
Thank you all very much for coming and voicing your thoughts and concerns. We appreciate your attendance at our Board meeting. Dunham Public Library is blessed with many talented and helpful volunteers. We have volunteers who assist with children’s programs, facilitate poetry readings and film discussions, assist in the maintenance of our building grounds, provide staff development activities, shelve books and do many other necessary tasks. However, our Friends of the Library hold a special place in our volunteer pantheon. According to their own bylaws, they exist to stimulate community interest in the services available in the library, and, to support library needs by engaging in appropriate programs and fund raising activities. According to the Friends of Libraries Sourcebook, a primary goal of Library Friends is ‘to promote the library program to the public and serve as advocates for library issues.’
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Read more about President Samarco's statement...
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In Support of the Library |
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To Dunham Library Patrons, Staff, Friends and Trustees:
The following unsolicited email was received by the Library Board and the Library Director this morning (August 4) in response to the article in that day's Utica Observer-Dispatch. Linda has very thoughtfully articulated the sea of change, which is libraries and librarianship in the second decade of the 21st century. With her permission, we publish it here.
Kindest regards,
Judy Jerome
Library Director
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Read Linda's letter...
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What is that interesting ‘Newest Arrivals’ scroll on the right side of our home page? It is the entrance portal to our new service called Wowbrary. What is scrolling in front of you is a sample of the new titles which were purchased last week by the library. Pressing MORE takes you to the listing of all of our new titles.
 Dunham Public Library is now subscribing to Wowbrary. http://www.wowbrary.org/ Wowbrary allows you to see what new items (books, CDs, DVDs) have been added to the library collection in the last seven days. You receive an email every Wednesday which lists all of the previous week's acquisitions including photos of the covers.
We are among the first in the country to offer our users free Wowbrary email alerts that showcase the library's newest items each week. The alerts feature the latest bestsellers, movies, music CDs, audio books, children's titles, cookbooks, mysteries, travel guides, health books, science fiction and more purchased by the library.
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Read more about Wowbrary...
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Installation of Handicapped Accessible Doors Now Complete |
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Dunham Public Library Director, Judith Jerome, announced today (May 10) the completion of the installation of both sets of handicapped accessible doors at the entrance to the library. Using wireless buttons, the doors can now be easily activated to open both from the outside and the inside of the library.
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Read more about the handicapped accessible doors...
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