Hennepin County Library Officially Withdrawn (HCLOW)

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Next Meeting Date:  September 14, 2010 - Location to be announced
 
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2010 Annual Meeting

HCL Director

The 2010 annual meeting was held on May 20th at the Ridgedale Library. Our featured speaker was Library Director Lois Langer Thompson, who talked with us about all that’s happening at HCL. To learn more about the meeting see the May 2010 minutes. (pictures from meeting)

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2009 Years of Service Celebration listing of HCL employees honored.
 
Be sure to check out the "Archives" area on our website. This area contains articles from the past as well as on current OW members. There are also histories of the various HCL libraries.
HCL Publicity Scrapbooks have been converted to electronic form. To see what was published about the library in past years go to the "Archives" area.
 

The Minnesota Historical Soceity has a new database that has articles from various publications throughout the years. If you're doing research about Minnesota this is a must check.

 

55+ is a great area on the Hennepin County Library website, a must see.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Roz Reisner, an HCL colleague from the early 1970’s who worked as a reference librarian at Southdale, has just written a wonderful reader’s guide to memoirs and autobiographies.    Roz also has a terrific web site “A Reader’s Place”, with all sorts of information,  reading suggestions & a great comment about her time here.

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Comments from OW Members and others

 

7/9/2010

I worked at HCL from 1972-1973 (as a clerk in County Reference in the downtown MPL building and then at the newly opened Southdale branch) and again from 1974-1975 (as a clerk at the Southdale branch), while I was in the now-defunct library school at the University of Minnesota. Those were the salad days of Robert Rohlf, Lora [Laura?] Landers, Sandy Berman, and a host of others. I have fond memories of working the circulation desk at Southdale under the able supervision of Monzetta (Zet) Cole and alongside a group of very eager and motivated coworkers, young and old. And I've kept in touch with a number of the librarians whom I knew back then (Roz Reisner in particular).

                                                  Zachary Baker

 

5/21/2010

At yesterday's meeting Lois Thompson referred to an MPR morning news "Today's Question" that asked if access to the internet was a basic human right. I looked at the responses to that question and they are summarized as follows: while many people talked about the importance of internet access, only 3 of the 12 people who responded were willing to give it the status of 'basic human right.' I enjoyed seeing everyone at yesterday's meeting and hearing about how things are going at HCL. It's a great organization, even without all of us withdrawn types!                                       Lee

 

 

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