2025 Library Hero Award

We are pleased to announce the winner of our Library Hero Award for 2025: 

JaDene M. Denniston!

Nomination:

"JaDene served as a school librarian in Cache Valley schools for 37 years at 7 different libraries! She was responsible for setting up three of those libraries. She believes in the right to read books of your choice and has been instrumental in setting up district policies against book banning and promoting the right to read. She was also an instructor at Utah State University teaching students how to be media school specialists. I have spoken to some of those students who consider her an invaluable mentor and dear friend.

"JaDene has served on the Logan Library Board for 8 years, even chairing the board some of that time. She was instrumental in passing several library policies including our public internet and collection development policies. She was an early member of CVLA and its president in 2016. She has served on the Friends of the Logan Library including being president from 2022-2024. And when the Friends lost their 501(c)(3) status, JaDene worked tirelessly to get all the paperwork done with the state to get us into compliance. JaDene’s work with the Friends supported the construction of the new Logan Library including the purchase of some of the furniture for the outdoor terrace.

"JaDene is a treasure! She is devoted to libraries and the difference they make in people’s lives. She is truly a Hero in our Library world!"

2017 Executive Committee!

We're very excited to announce our 2017 Executive Committee!

✴ President: Paul Daybell (North Logan City Library​)
✴ Vice President/President Elect: Dory Cochran (The Merrill-Cazier Library​ at USU)
✴ Past President: JaDene Denniston (Mountainside Elementary, retired)
✴ Secretary: Flora Shrode (The Merrill-Cazier Library at USU)
✴ Member at Large (Academic/Special): Coral Larson (The Logan Family Center​)
✴ Member at Large (Public): Brittany Benson (North Logan City Library & Mendon Library and City Hall​)
✴ Member at Large (School): Nancy Krogh (Adams Elementary)

Thank you to all the great people who ran for office this year and also to all those who served on our nominating committee!

National Library Week 2016

President JaDene Denniston wrote a great column for National Library Week which was published in The Herald Journal.

"Libraries are many things to different people but to me they are places of wonder. They are places where adventures begin and keep on going, where questions and answers merge together, yet they are so much more. They can take us to places we will never visit like “Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,” or the planet Jupiter.

"This year’s theme, “Libraries Transform,” makes me think of how libraries can and have changed people’s lives. Suppose you need the manual for your old 1967 Mustang. Libraries have it. Perhaps you need help learning how to use your smart phone. Libraries have that as well. Whether school, university, private or public, libraries transform lives and communities.

"Libraries of Cache Valley play a vital role in the lives of many people from helping a sixth grader find information on ancient civilizations, to a family planning a trip to Europe. Today’s libraries continue to provide books, resources, and information to their patrons. But today they are so much more. Libraries are living organisms continually adapting to better serve their communities. They transform lives through literacy programs. They offer employment support. Technology training is available. And don’t forget entertainment. Libraries provide vast activities for individuals, families and groups..."

You can read the full article here.

Election Results

The results are in and our 2016 Executive Committee will be:

President: JaDene Denniston (Mountainside Elementary, retired)
Vice President / President Elect: Paul Daybell (North Logan City Library)
Past President: Liz Woolcott (USU Merrill-Cazier Library)
Secretary: Karen Bowling (Smithfield Public Library)
Member at Large (Academic): Jennifer Duncan (USU Merrill-Cazier Library)
Member at Large (Public): Jason Cornelius (Logan Library)
Member at Large (School): Noelle Harrild (Thomas Edison Charter School North)

Please plan to attend our next business meeting on Thursday, January 21 [updated] at 4:30 PM at Mountain Crest High School in Hyrum where our new leaders will be presented to the membership and you'll be able to congratulate them in person.

Thank you to everyone who voted and everyone who was on the ballot. Our organization stands on the participation of its members.

2016 Nominating Committee
Joseph N. Anderson, Chair
Liz Woolcott
JaDene Denniston
Darcy Pumphrey
Melanie Peterson