My trip to Vietnam this last March was inspired by the late Patrick Lucero, a nineteen year old soldier who died in Viet Nam in 1967. Later this year the East Side library in Pueblo will be named after him. I will be the manager there. Shortly after Patrick’s name was being considered for the library I found out another library built in Ba Long Commune in Quang Tri province had been named for Patrick and opened on September 11, 2010. I found this out through a chance meeting and association with a Seattle based organization, PeaceTrees Vietnam, whose mission is of peace and compassion.

First of all - I need to share that I entered the wrong info last week. I said we had over 6,000 kids registered for Summer Reading last year - and I was wrong. I had inadvertently added another figure to our total to get that number.

Thanks Jen, for the update: The Eiler Heights Neighborhood Story/Movie Premiere and Public Meeting was a giant success!

If you ever need to drive the Mazda passenger van or any of the PCCLD vehicles, you need to have a current DMV report on file to get your name on the Driver's List.  To find out if you're on the list already, contact Katie Hunt in Finance.

I'd like to ask the help of all the staff.  If you happen to be by the gates when they go off, please, ask the person to go to the front desk.

Video of the session, Responding to Gang Activity: a discussion with Officer Shelly Taylor, is now available on the Portal at: 

http://portal.pueblolibrary.org/employee-training-videos

Be safe!

Have you recently walked past Outreach and wondered if we are redecorating the office?!!  The new furniture you may have noticed includes items that we will be purchasing for the new libraries.

Happy Tuesday!  Time for your Summer Reading Update!  

Please keep your eye out for the person in the attached photo. He stole a bicycle from PW a couple of weeks ago, and I saw him riding 'his' bike near Rawlings on Monday the 23rd. If anyone is able to identify him, please let me know so I can pass that info on to the sheriff's office.