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Foundation Update
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Thank you to the two members of the Board of Directors of the Mead Public Library Foundation, Eleanor (Tippy) Jung and Barbara Gruber, who retired from the board after their terms ended in January. The Foundation also has launched its own website with information on its goals and accomplishments, ways to help enhance library services and programs, and how be an advocate. The website URL is: supportmeadpl.org.
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Friends Annual Meeting Set
| | The Friends of Mead Public Library will hold their annual meeting on Saturday, April 23, at 1:30 p.m. in The Loft.
A short business meeting will be held which will include the election of board members. Current members Nancy Stephani and Mary Ann Neuses are retiring from the board in April. Thank you for your service.
Library Director Garrett Erickson will present a program highlighting new services and programs at Mead Public Library.
Refreshments and a social time will conclude the event. New and current members are invited to attend.
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Bound Vintage "Life" Magazines
for Sale
The Friends have a wonderful collection of library-bound Life Magazines. This collection begins with the year 1936 to the year 1976. Most years are represented by six volumes each containing two months. The years 1936 to 1940 are $25 each. Years 1941 to 1959 are $15 each. Years 1960 to 1976 are $10 each. Also available are single Life magazines from 1980 to 2000, which are each $1.
Anyone interested in this collection may call the library at 459-3400, ext. 3411, or by e-mail and a Friends member will get back to you.
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Wireless Printing Available
| | Mead Library now offers its wireless device users the ability to print to library printers. Directions are at the printers; cost is 20 cents per page.
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footnotes
Volume 25, Number 3
March 2016
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"Scan Day" March 5 at Mead
Scan Day at Mead Public Library
will be held on
Saturday, March 5,
9 a.m. to 3 p.m., in the
Rocca Meeting Room at
Mead Public Library.
Do you have photos of City of Sheboygan people, places, events, buildings, in family photo albums? Letters, memoirs, posters or artwork? Or do you have souvenirs or other artifacts related to the history of the City of Sheboygan?
Scan Day offers an opportunity to preserve for posterity personal items that have a connection to the City of Sheboygan.
The initial Scan Day event will be held with the help of ResCarta Foundation in the Rocca Meeting Room at Mead Library. Up to 20 photographs, letters, diaries and artifacts may be scanned. No appointment is needed to have items scanned at this first event.
 All items to be scanned must be personally owned and have some connection to the City of Sheboygan. For example, photos must have been taken in the City of Sheboygan. Artifacts can range from business calendars, products made in Sheboygan, school banners, to commemorative plates.
For photos, it is helpful to have as much information as is known including when and where the photo was taken and names of those in the photos.
Items that are copyrighted, such as professional photographs, will not be scanned unless written permission is obtained from the copyright holder. Participants will receive a copy of the digital scans on a portable digital storage device.
With the owner's permission by signing a Deed of Gift, the images will be made accessible through Recollection Wisconsin, a statewide digital repository that contributes content to the Digital Public Library of America. The Eastern Shores Library System sponsors the Ozaukee and Sheboygan Memories project through Recollection Wisconsin. (Signing the Deed of Gift to share the images is not required to have qualifying items scanned.)
There are additional opportunities to have City of Sheboygan items scanned by appointment beginning in April and into 2017. Check the library's website (meadpl.org) or call 459-3400, ext. 3422, for more information.
"Preserving the History of Sheboygan through Digital Images" has been made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities: Exploring the human endeavor.
This grant funds equipment for Scan Day events in the community, programs and exhibits featuring City of Sheboygan history.
Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in these programs do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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New Member for Mead Library Board
 Kevin Anderson, who was recently appointed to the Mead Public Library Board, describes himself as "a Midwestern boy with an overdeveloped sense of wanderlust" and it would be a challenge to dispute that.
Anderson has been a journalist for most of his career, and after working for a few years for a local newspaper in Kansas and then a regional news website in Michigan, his career took an international turn. In 1998, he joined the BBC as a correspondent based in Washington DC, covering anything that happened in North America from presidential elections to the Oscars, mostly covering what he calls "quirky things like a prison rodeo"- and counts among his reporting accomplishments three presidential elections, two inaugurations, and the Oscars. In 2005, he moved to London first to continue his work with the BBC before joining The Guardian as its first blogs editor.
Six years ago, he and his wife Suw went into business as consultants working with media companies and on projects in Europe, Africa, North America and Asia. But when given a chance to return to his roots in local journalism and the Midwest, he jumped at it and came to Sheboygan two years ago as executive editor of The Sheboygan Press and HTR News in Manitowoc. He has since returned to consulting after his position with the papers was eliminated.
He said he was glad to have the opportunity to return to the Midwest and its "wonderful people, kind and generous. And Sheboygan is affordable, right on the lake, a cultural center, has iconic brands headquartered here that give back to the community, a nice mix of restaurants. Just a great place to call home."
A native of northern Illinois and graduate of the University of Illinois, Anderson's parents were teachers. His mother returned to college in her 50s to become a reading specialist. While he grew up with plenty of magazines and books at home, he said his mother always stressed that "not everybody has that at home."
"Even in the Internet era," Anderson said, "we want to make sure anyone in the community can have access to books and learning for information, education, and entertainment. I'm interested in social mobility. You can have a better life, but you need access to information and education. We need to have public spaces where people can get together and institutions that support the community. That's incredibly important. I'm thrilled to be part of the a library with a progressive view of what its role is in the community." |
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rch 18, April 15, May 20, 3-5 pm
Spring Break Movies at 2 pm
Grafting
"Sheboygan: Tales of the Tragic & Bizarre"
Saturday, April 16