Staff News

As we all sadly know, our Fairfield Lane colleague Tabitha Peal passed away unexpectedly on March 17, 2020. Tabby was a much loved daughter, sister, friend and coworker. Tabby was born and raised in Hamilton and was studying to be a counselor. Tabby was always a bright personality in our branch. She was positive, fun, fun-loving, funny! Nothing could stress her out at work, and her personality and work ethic made her great to work alongside. To say that she will be missed in an understatement. – Valerie

Please share your remembrances of Tabby in the Comments link above so that we can share memories with our colleagues who did not have the opportunity to know her.

Here is an inspirational story about the impact public libraries from our own Peter Bour (Fairfield).

“How our Library rescued me”

I’d just like to note on the record that though PLCH blogged about Peter, Lane had the good sense to hire him first!

Thank you to the following staff for assisting in the cleanup process at LAC yesterday: Trent Hart, Connie Yeager, Chip Kruthoffer, Matt Leffler, Celeste Swanson,  Rob Carringer, Mandy Thoman, Brendan Packert, Katrina Bate, Tracy Ward, Cathy Johnson, and Margaret Winstead.  

Lisa Hires (Cataloger, Technical Services) began work at Lane on September 06, 1978. 40 years ago, or 14,604 days ago. Margaret Winstead (Cataloger, Technical Services)  began work at Lane on August 31, 1993. 25 years ago,or 9131 days ago. I was trying to figure those out in dog years but, with all of the dog …

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Amanda Toth’s first book review for School Library Journal was published in the August 2018 issue: Not Even Bones.

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