Newspaper and Newsletter Columns

Appreciate Your Public Library

By U.S. Representative Dave Loebsack (D-Iowa) April 18, 2007 - Editorial - Daily Democrat, Fort Madison, IA

The Library as Dynamic Gathering Place

An editorial by the Muscatine Journal, May 11, 2006

The Importance of Libraries

by LaWanda Roudebush, Director, Davenport Public Library

Lots of good reasons to have a library card

by Tena Hanson, Director, Milford Memorial Library Appeared in September 4, 2002 Dickinson County News

The Value of the Library

By Nikki Ehlers, Director, Humboldt Public Library as appeared in the January 3, 2003 Humboldt Independent

Onawa Public Library Celebrates Library Lover's Month

by Dianne Kelley, Trustee as appeared in the Onawa Democrat February 11, 2004

Library funding comes from a variety of sources

by Jim Godsey, Director, Council Bluffs Public Library Appeared in December, 2001 Daily Nonpareil

Bertha Bartlett Library bookshelf

by Janice Thompson, Director, Bertha Bartlett Library, Story City as appeared in the Story City Herald, January 8, 2003

Quotes from "Libraries are an Essential Service"

by William Ecenbarger The following quotes are taken from the Christian Science Monitor 3/11/2005, Vol. 97 Issue 74, p9, 0p

Library Plays Important Role in Keokuk Economy

Letter to the editor (Daily Gate City, Keokuk, February 2005) by Dr. Douglass Norvell, Nauvoo, IL

Library helps with perplexing problems

by Jim Godsey, Director, Council Bluffs Public Library Appeared in November 18, 2002 Daily NonPariel

Please: Help tell the 'library story' to our Iowa Legislators

by Claudia Warner, Director, Algona Public Library Appeared in October 2, 2002 The Algona Upper Des Moines

What it Would Cost You....

by Marcia Sulentic, Director, Sumner Public Library Appeared in Nov. 14 2002 Sumner Gazette

Calculations Show Library is a Bargain

by James Quirk Jr., Reporter Appeared in Burlington Hawk Eye November 2004

Even Tiniest Children Enjoy Good Book

by Todd Reed, Director, Roland Public Library Appeared in August 28, 2002 Story City Herald

Newspaper / Newsletter Columns by Iowa Librarians

Read what other librarians have written in their local news outlets. Good food for thought.

Francis Banta Waggoner Community Library Meets Area Needs

by Jane Kedley, Library Director Appeared in January 24, 2004 Observer, DeWitt, IA

In praise of books and reading

by Jim Godsey, Director, Council Bluffs Public Library Appeared in April 22, 2002 Daily Nonpareil

Your Public Library - One of the Best Bargains in Town

By LaWanda Roudebush, former director of the Fort Dodge Public Library Appeared in July 18, 2003 The Messenger

Library Corner: Activities at the Sac City Library

by Joyce O'Tool, Sac City Public Library as appeared in the Sac Sun, April 6, 2004

Annual reports tell library story

by Jim Godsey, Director, Council Bluffs Public Library Appeared in August 26, 2002 Daily Nonpareil

What is Weeding and Why Is It Important for a Useful Community Library?

by Cindy Miller, Library Director, Griswold Public Library as appeared in the Griswold American, July 16, 2003

On Any Given Day...(in my library)

by Betsy Thompson, Director, Sioux City Public Library Annual Report, July 1999-June 2000

Library open house can open a world of knowledge

by Joyce Godwin, Director, Indianola Public Library as appeared in the Record-Herald & Indianola Tribune April 2, 2003

Algona Public Library to make changes due to state budget cuts

by Claudia Warner, Director, Algona Public Library as appeared in the Algona Upper Des Moines Newspaper, June 19, 2003

Thanking the Public Library for the Help It Has Been to Me

 

The Value of Libraries

by Daphne Stromley, Manly Public Library (appeared in the Manly Signal, October 2004)