New Local Section!

We're just waiting on a strip of carpet and a shoe board and our new local section will be complete! Come in and see for yourself!

Donation from Peninsula Bank

Peninsula Bank donated $2,000 to our Building Accessibility and Renovation Campaign! Pictured here are the VP Chief Lending Officer Terry Garceau, Library Director Jessica Shirtz, and Chief Fundraiser Ray Leverton.

Thank you Peninsula Bank of Ishpeming!

Window Replacement

Help us preserve the historic façade of our timeless library! Our windows have been deteriorating for many years allowing mold to spread through the library collection.

With your donation of $1,000 you will replace one of our fifty rotted-out windows with a new air-tight window that matches the original appearance of the library.

A donation of $8,000 will make you responsible for the preservation of one of our six large, arched windows which give the library its character.

For your gift you will be recognized on a plaque dedicated to window donors. Thank you for helping us restore the beauty and efficiency of our building.

 For more information and a pledge form please visit the library's website here.

THANK YOU!

Halfway to our new Local Section!

Thank you to the wonderful members of our local Kiwanis group for helping us get closer to completing our new Local Section!

Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library featured in The Mining Journal!

Carnegie updates children’s room

April 3, 2014

ZACH JAY - Journal Ishpeming Bureau (zjay@miningjournal.net) , The Mining Journal

 

 

ISHPEMING - More kids in Marquette County's west end are checking out books and taking part in special programs at the Ishpeming Carnegie Public Library children's room, thanks to recent interior upgrades and an ambitious and invested children's librarian.

The children's room has a new stage for puppet shows built as a wood-framed window in the west wall and a number of pieces of new furniture, including some sized for parents who want to stay and interact with their youngsters.

And Roger Junak, whom Library Director John McNaughton called a "local artist and local legend" for his handful of murals throughout the area painted a mural featuring a doe and her fawn and a few other fauna in the midst of a forest on the west wall.

"We're really, really happy with it," McNaughton said. "(Junak) wanted to do it free of charge. I guess the story goes, when he used to come to this library when he was a kid, one of the librarians here at the time gave him his first set of paints."

Heather Lander was given the librarian job in the children's room last June, and has since improved program attendance and doubled the children's circulation numbers.

"She has a lot of ties to the community, she added a lot more programs and I think she's been really listening to the public and trying to bring new and innovative ways to get people in - and her programs have been really popular," McNaughton said. "It's been great."

"I really try whenever patrons come in to talk to them about what they're looking for ... and finding out what kinds of things they like," Lander said. "If children come in and they're, for instance, looking for books about trains ... then I'll not only point them to picture books of trains, but then nonfiction books about trains, and then they check out a lot more, because they see how many different things there are to offer."

Lander is planning an upcoming "LEGO Storytime" special program at 5 p.m. April 24, where, after reading stories, kids will build things out of LEGOS that fit the stories' themes. If successful, she said, it will become a regular event.

For more information on the children's room programs, visit the blog at www.ishpemingpubliclibrarykids.blogspot.com.
Zach Jay can be reached at 906-486-4401.

 

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