Upcoming meetings

The next library board meeting will be on Tues., Sept. 16th, 7pm (library meeting room) where some new building designs will be discussed. Hopefully an artist's redition of the new library will provide inspiration to the board as they see definition in construction elements.

There will be a Library Citizen's committee meeting on Wed., Sept. 17th, 7pm at the McHenry Public Library District meeting room. Agenda items so far include the following:

Committee heads update
Tips for public speaking - Kathy Lambert
Brainstorming - how do we get the message out
vote Yes signs
ad with list of citizens voting Yes
Calendar for public speaking engagments

The Friends of the Library will be holding their annual meeting on Thurs., Sept. 18th, at 7pm in the booksale area. The referendum will be amoung several items discussed. Please plan to attend.

The League of Women Voters of McHenry County will have an educational forum specifically discussing the new building referendum on Wed., Oct. 8th, 7-9pm, in the McHenry Public Library District meeting room.

Also, on Tues., Oct. 7th, all day - the League of Women Voters will be registering people to vote in the Nov. 4th election. Please note that people can register to vote at the library at any time. Sample ballots for the election should be available the first week in October because early voting starts Oct. 14th.

On that day, Oct. 7th in the evening, the library will host a 'Tech Fair' - basically showcasing all of our electronic media - full-text databases, downloadable e-books and audio books, burning them to a CD or saving them to your iPod or flash drive, reference question messaging (Meebo) and other items. At the same time, we'll be running some informational presentations on our LCD screen in the front foyer about the library and library building referendum. So stop by, learn about our electronic reference sources (available from home as well), pickup a free mouse pad (first 125 people), register for some cool prizes and see whay we need a new building.

In October, various library trustees will be providing facility tours so you can we just why we need a new library. Watch this blog and our library website/library bulletin board for tour dates/times.