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10 9 Terrace Review —- Wednesday, October 9, 1991

Who are...

“The Terrace Public Library is
currently staffed by eight

. dedicated employees who serve
_ the population of Terrace and

area with courtesy, efficiency

” and knowledge.

The first library in Ter-

. race was founded by Cassie

Hall and Kate Braun in 1929

’ in the old Great War Veter-
_ans’ Hall on Lakelse Avenue.

Books belonged to the Great
War. Veterans and were sup-

plemented by the Travelling

Library Service. Arthur Carr,
Ralph Cory and Mrs. Hamlin
comprised the first Library

Board.

Being located in a variety
of buildings over a period of
years, the library was finally
offered premises by Bert
Swain in the offices above
McLeod store on Lazelle Ave.
until 1945.

In the interim period
1945 to 1952, books were
stored in a building beside
the army shed firehall locat-
ed in the building which now
houses the Salvation Army
thrift shop. In 1952, a call
went out to the Terrace pub-
lic to attend a general meet-
ing to form a Library Associ-
ation and discuss a means of
establishing and maintaining
such an association.

In 1953, the Terrace
Library officially opened in

_ the Provincial Government

Building (beside the new
Anglican Church on Lakelse
Ave.), with Terrace as the
eighth member of the North
Central Library Association.
This association allowed
access to 10,000 books.

By 1959, the library. had
grown to such an extent that
more space was imperative.
A room in the new Civic Cen-
tre (at the site of the present
Terrace Public Library) was
allocated with the Junior
Chamber of Commerce
pledging to finish the room.
That move never happened.

_ But in 1960, it did move
into the old Municipal Build-
ing (where the Happy Gang
Centre stands today). There,
it remained until its final
move into the Centennial
Building on July 1, 1967.

In the spring of 1979,
plans were approved for an
expansion to the Centennial
project library. It so stands
today. From its inception,
and during its nomadic exis-
tence until it was perma-
nently located in George Lit-

{le Memorial Park, the Ter-

race Public Library has con-
tinuously expanded. It now
provides books, videos,
records, CDs, films, a foreign
language section, and a chil-
dren’s library for the enjoy-

ment and edification of resi-

dents in Terrace and Thorn-
hill. .
_ With business hours of

The Librarians? }

by! Betty Barton

more than 80 hours in every
seven-day period (the library
is closed Mondays), the staff
works in shifts. For that
reason the Terrace Review
interviewed only those on duty
last Wednesday for this week's
story.

In 1954, Bette Ulson and
her family moved to Terrace.
She has been a familiar face
at the Terrace Public Library
since 1972 and serves 4s
secretary, shipper/receiver
and acquisitions clerk. Bette
has worked under five
librarians in 19 years. She
says, “Ed (Curell) has been
here the longest. We’ve had
a pretty steady staff the last
few years."

Bette and the rest of the:
staff feel.the computeriza-
tion is the biggest change at
the library. Bette explains
that the library has gone
from hand check-outs. on to
RECORD AK, “a good step up
from hand checking”, She
adds. In November 1985, the
Terrace Public Library staff
began the process of trans-
ferring all the manual sys-
tems and files onto comput-
er, both for use by library
users and staff. Librarian Ed
Curell did all the staff train-
ing to accomplish the task.

Bette’s daughter Becky
Sundberg (nee: Chasteau-
neuf) has worked at the Ter-
race Public Library for over 10
years. Before that, she was a
regular library user. Becky's
work week is 32 hours, pro-
cessing videos, CD's and
cassettes. She also does all the
typing for adult and junior
non-fiction.

Since Becky started at the
library, circulation has dou-
bled: The same number of
staff, working less hours,
handle the increased vol-
ume. Says Becky, “We
couldn’t handle the circula-
tion volume if we didn’t have
the computers.”

Sheelagh Meiklem has
been part-time bookkeeper
at the Terrace Public Library
since 1981. She is also
responsible for the shut-in
service (Bookmobile), works
at the circulation desk with
the rest of the staff, and in
the past, laminated user
books. Sheelagh says the
library has become very
technical in recent years
with the introduction of the
automation change, video
and audio materials avail-
able, and the library is
increasingly busy.

Sheelagh has lived in Ter-
race since 1969. She was a
volunteer at the library in
the early ‘70s and a member
of Friends of the Library
Association. This then-active
organization served as a
fundraiser for extras at the
library. They organized

DENIZENS OF THE STACKS. The crew at the Terrace Public Library offer the
reading public a variety of backgrounds and skills...in a quiet way.

monthly book sales and
other fundraising events.
Their last purchase, as far
as Sheelagh knows, was
drapes for the 1979 library
expansion. Sheelagh credits
Judy Houlden as the driving
force behind the Friends of
the Library.

Sheelagh says, “We? re all
looking forward to (the pro-
posed) library expansion. We
trip over things to answer a
phone. It’s too crowded. We
need a lot more working space
for staff, and a security sys-
tem.

Kathy Willcox, a Terrace
resident since 1970, “agrees,
and adds, “The library is a
comfortable environment for

me.” Kathy joined the

Library Club in Grade 8. In
her Grade 12 year, she
served as a page at the Ter-
race Public Library, return-

ing books to the shelves,
cleaning record albums and
‘tacky backing’ spines and
corners of books.

For the past five years,
Kathy has been in charge of
inter-library loans, periodi-
cals, desk duty and the
multi-lingual exchange.
Three times each year, the
Terrace Public Library and
libraries throughout B.C.
exchange foreign language
books. These books are not
catalogued, which some-
times leads to confusion
about the borrower. The for-

‘eign language books belong

to the National Library. At
present, the Terrace Public
Library has a collection of
books in Chinese, Greek,
Danish, Dutch, Russian, Ital-
ian, Portuguese, German,
Hindu, Japanese, Viet-
namese and Punjabi (largest

readership section in the for-
eign language books).

Karl Beerda is a volun-
teer paperback processor at
the Terrace Public Library.
He works an hour and a half
four times a week as part of a
work experience program
through Terrace and District
Community Services.

The current executive of
the Terrace Library board
are Willy Schneider, Mau-
reen Ogawa, Mardy Lorimer
and president Judy Chrysler.

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