Every patron, child, and grandchild using the present library contributes to the overcrowding, which must be endured until the projected big library has been built. Surely, each will want to help to relieve this terrible situation. Here are a few suggestions: Use amazon.com to order new or used books. Resell those you do not wish to keep via the same Web site. Get a state library card and pin number to borrow books through interlibrary loan. Check out the stacks; not all the books are law books or government publications. Get a Laramie County Community College Library card. This is another fine facility, funded with your tax dollars. Ask the high schools to keep their libraries and computer labs open at night. Help to raise funds to provide reference books and to pay for staffing. Attend Johnson Junior High's Family Reading Night. Then ask your neighborhood school to sponsor similar events. For more information, call Lynn Achter at 771-2640. Consider holding club or organization meetings in a church fellowship hall, and having members contribute to the appropriate donation. Or hold night or weekend meetings at the Cheyenne Housing Authority's Senior Center on Thomes Avenue for a nominal donation. Rent some videotapes and gather with friends and neighbors for a movie night. Do not impact the county library by checking these out and watching them alone. If you and you alone have checked out a book in the past 10 years, buy it from the library, so as to make more space available for new acquisitions. If you happen to save time, stress, and gasoline, or impact the environment less, more power to you. If children who have no access to the county library learn to love reading, so much the better. If some neighborhood ties are strengthened in the process, you are contributing to an overall quality of life which many cities and counties may rightfully envy. Lucy R. Woodman Cheyenne BACK |