Coffeyville Public Library

Now this post is for my friend, Salai Taylor, who is the Lead Librarian at Southern Peaks Public Library (SPPL) in our hometown, Alamosa, Colorado (I worked at SPPL before retiring). Here at the Coffeyville Public Library they have a few features I think are very helpful to library patrons and I wanted to show them to Salai as she might want to incorporate them at SPPL.

This is an area just for the youth to hang. It has neat, modern furniture, bright colors and they have their own computers to use away from "the adults".

This is an area the library created just for people to use their laptops and connect to the library's wifi. Notice the built-in surge protectors to plug in to and the privacy the desks provide. Great idea! Many fulltimers are not using aircards to connect to the Internet, as we do. But there are still many fulltimers who rely on free wifi connections easily found in almost all public libraries, as well as coffee shops, truck stops and pubs. This wifi desk configuration is a very good idea for libraries, as in most libraries you only have tables to use and usually without electrical hookups.

And this is really a clever idea - using grocery store style shopping baskets with the library's name on it for patrons to carry around and gather their books to check out. At SPPL people use to come to the check out desk with arms full of books and tapes - sometimes piled up to their chins. The shopping basket idea is a great solution to that problem.

Hay, Salai, maybe the Friends of the Library could buy them for the library!!!

I want to say "thank you" to all our other blog readers for indulging me in periodically making personal posts to people with photos on our blog. It is just so much easier to posts photos here than to take the time to resize them all and attach them to an email.