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About the Library The John Trigg Ester library is a membership library affiliated with the Ester Community Association. Membership is $5 a year. Check out our handy online catalog to see what titles we have. Library News A meeting to draw up the application for 501(c)(3) status and determine our best organization was held June 10. Regular meetings will be held on the 2nd Wednesday of the month 7 pm at Hartung Hall. The next meeting is July 8. Please review the notes from the previous meetings. The librarians are working on getting a permit for the driveway, and architect Matt Prouty is working on the architectural plans.
Library design and planning meetings have begun once again! The most recent meeting was April 5. New building plans were revealed and a refined version presented at the lallapalooza. Discussions on separation from the ECA and incorporation have also been taking place. At the spring ECA meeting, the membership decided to spin the library off as its own nonprofit. The manner and date of separation of the two entities will be determined later. One aspect of a modern library that is very important is high-speed internet access, which, as Ester residents know, is in short supply here in the Ester Fire Service District. Contact ACS if you want DSL or T-1 access, and let them know that there is demand, that you want if for the library too, and that there will be increased demand as time goes by. At our recent cleanups at the library we tidied up the library, sorted donated books, cleaned up the library annex, brought books to Calypso Farm's Resource Library, and winterized the window shelves! We also set up the t-shirt sales area, so now if you'd like to get a t-shirt or sweatshirt, you can buy them right there! Just plunk your money in the brown jar by the door (checks can be made to JTEL). T-shirts are $15 for shortsleeved, $20 for longsleeved, and sweatshirts are $35. Designs feature either the library logo or the Readers on the Run logo. Check out our online catalog! The librarians will be adding titles to the catalog as time allows; it isn't complete, but we're working on it. We're asking people to hold off on bringing more books to the library, as we don't have room for all the ones we have now! We should have a new library by winter 2009 (we hope), so please, just hang on to them for a little while longer. Check The Ester Republic for more library news and book and movie reviews, some of those books and videos residing on the library's shelves. Where to Find the Library The library is located off the village square in downtown Ester, Alaska, in the lower level of Frank's house, a red-and-white barnish building next to the log castle (you'll see what we mean when you get to the village square). The library is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., Monday through Sunday. You can e-mail us at library [at] esterrepublic.com or call 479-3368 and leave a message if you have questions. Land & building planning The new library building will be built along Village Road, The ECA is holding open planning meetings to discuss site planning and building design. The most recent one was January 18. At the previous meeting (Nov. 2) it was decided to build the library in phases. Check out our gazebo, by the post office! Philosophy of the Ester library Also, note the EMCE's Planting Day, June 1, 2008. Buckets of flowers were planted that day and placed around the village, including the gazebo and the library drive. Plans are in the works to do this again in June 2009. |
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