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Now that they have a spanking new building and an increasing base of patrons, the Warsaw Community Library Board of Trustees wants help with its annual budget.
Ann Zydek, library director, said in advance of their work beginning in earnest on the 2000 budget she would like to have greater community input into what services the library offers and the times they are offered.
"I would like to see a broad cross-section of the community polled in developing the annual budget," she said. "That would help us develop a plan of providing services they'd like and how those services are provided."
She said she received many requests for the library to remain open later, and to open on Sunday.
"We would, of course, have to modify the number of hours we are open the rest of the week to keep the hours to 68 per week from Labor Day to Memorial Day," she said.
Opening on Sunday, between 1 and 5 p.m., would add an additional expense of $70,000 per year, she said.
Other expansions in services that she would like the community to consider would be increasing the hours the computer lab is open from 30 to 50 hours per week.
Priorities Zydek would like to see are security personnel for the evening hours; creation of a webmaster's position to maintain the library's Internet site; creation of a graphic artist position to assist with library promotional pieces; and purchase of a new color photocopier, for an estimated cost of $20,000.
