2024 Library Hero Award

Congratulations to

Joseph Anderson

who was named our 2024 Library Hero!

NOMINATION:
"I would like to nominate Joseph Anderson as a library hero. Joseph has loved and worked in libraries for years. As assistant director and non-fiction librarian at the Logan Library, he advocates for collection diversity and freedom to read, making sure that his collection has items to fill the needs of all members of the community. He is also a strong advocate for patron privacy. Joseph helps facilitate Friends of the Library and has also helped form partnerships with community entities such as Helicon West. Joseph has been involved in CVLA from the beginning. He currently serves as web master keeping the community informed. He also keeps us on track and makes sure we adhere to the by-laws. Joseph has combined his love of libraries with his inclination as a history buff.  For his MSLS, he wrote a research paper on the history of past and present attempts to form a county-wide library system in Cache County. He also recently gave a presentation for the Cache Valley Historical Society on the history of the Logan Library. All in all, Joseph works to help libraries be the best they can. Isn’t that a library hero?"
(nominated by Lauri Hancey)

The award was presented to Joseph on Tue, Jan 23 at our membership meeting at the USU Merrill-Cazier Library.

2024 Annual Meeting

At our annual meeting on Tue, Jan 23 at the USU Merrill-Cazier Library, we introduced our 2024 Executive Committee, thanked our outgoing 2023 Executive Committee, announced our 2024 Library Hero Award recipient, and shared our personal histories with libraries. Thanks to all who attended.

We are excited to announce the election results for our 2018 CVLA Officers. Further details will be coming regarding our January business meeting, so stay tuned.

Please welcome our new officers:

Vice-President/President Elect: Sarah Rigby

Secretary: Joseph Anderson

Member at Large (Academic): Carol Kochan

Member at Large (Public): Emily Coltrin

Member at Large (School): Katelyn Ballif

Member at Large (Student/Paraprofessional): Diana Huffman

Urgent: Library Advocacy Needed

Dear CVLA and community members,

As reported on Cache Valley Daily on Sep. 14, Cache County Executive Craig Buttars is currently considering de-funding the Cache / Rich Bookmobile and Cache County Library. We are very concerned about the impact of such a move on our communities, and also the employees of these essential organizations.

Last week, our CVLA Executive Committee created an advocacy committee to explore ways we might promote our libraries, especially the bookmobile and county library at this time. You'll hear more from the committee in the near future. If you are interested in assisting in this effort, even if only for a short time, please contact me ASAP at joseph.anderson@loganutah.org.

In the meantime, if you feel so inclined, please respectfully express your opinion on this issue to Executive Buttars at (435) 755-1850 or craig.buttars@cachecounty.org before he presents his preliminary budget to the council during their Oct. 11 meeting. You can also like the new Save the Cache/Rich Bookmobile Facebook page for updates and to show your support.

We know how important libraries are in the lives of our community members. We know how important the bookmobile is, especially to our rural communities. We know the amazing rate of return on investment in libraries. We're not giving up on our communities, their libraries, and their employees!

All the best,

Joseph N. Anderson
CVLA Advocacy Committee Chair

2016 USU Common Literature Experience

From Joseph, CVLA Webmaster:

The 2016 USU common literature experience book is How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson.

The Connections program has asked that I let you all know about it and I am glad to oblige as a former member of the book selection committee. This year they are once again planning to include our libraries in the experience by distributing free posters/postcards and books to at least the public libraries. You may even have received them already. I have emailed promotional images to all CVLA members.

Visit http://www.usu.edu/connections/literatureexperience/ for more information about the book, the convocation talk by the author on Friday, August 26 at the Spectrum (open to the public and also streamed online), and to view episodes of the PBS documentary of the same name.

I'd encourage you to promote the reading of How We Got to Now with your patrons this summer. Let's get our whole community reading the same book at the same time!