we're here in their new little cafe which is i think it's very quaint and it's so nice and it really adds to the library and it just gives a little more character and so i want to welcome you in and so i thought well to ask you i see where the new space is for the library now can can you please tell the viewers what's new about all this ok well for sure this is our new cafe lily and we dedicated this back in december in honor of mrs lee who had been here for with her every year is that yes and we thought it was be very appropriate it was part of her vision to have a place where the patrons could come have a cup of coffee something to and a comfortable space where they could relax and interact with one another because the library is definitely a meeting place and we thought well what better place to meet than in a caf we also included some various historical posters that margaret tights are in a team of volunteers have put together and they are all through cafe lee and through the library we really want to highlight the history that the township has course the donaldson's the mcmurry is so with lots of great photographs of familiar names that people write a no they haven't been able to associate a face with so they can come to the library see these posters and learn a little bit more about the community right  so as you are coming around to look at the history of the library take it take some time to visit our reading room and see this beautiful portrait that we have here this is leigh wonderful you know i knew i had an interview here when they were here they were here from the done in pittsburgh for the history center oh yes they did a program here i mean there is quite a few others but four or five of us really interviewed ok and then we had the honor our mascot but it is the mascot of the we have a three y three county wide system and well you can stands for washington area greater green information network oh ok that at the moment links twenty libraries  throughout those counties and over one million items so if we don't have the item here in our library we can get it from one of the other nineteen libraries in our wagon system so the dog's name is fetch and  think of him you know as you would a dog fetch bringing things to you and i so our libraries hope to be able to bring things to the citizens of washington the washington area and great agreed and now fayette county is part of a way a network so you're right you doug here you can either return a book or someone in the other places yes you can so we don't we don't have to be exactly if we don't have the book we can get it from another library you may return the book to that library or to our library we have a delivery van that comes and visits all of the libraries so he'll get it to the right spot we'll check it in and take care of it from there with wonderful another great advantage yes absolutely because you know it's in this day and age not everybody can have every item so we do share ok do you have any materials or programs that you would like to for our seniors cherish will not only for the it's all kind of ages here absolutely we do we have something for everyone here at the library i know i'll be coming to one of the senior centers soon but i we do have some things that might appeal and i have a few of the items here which i know myself not necessarily a senior quite yet but we do have a lot of books that are large print so i like david mccullough if you are a fan of david mccullough books or tom clancy or lisa's go to leone we have so many of section we have some different kinds of if you're if you're mobile and you like to be moving maybe you're gardening or you like to go for walks we have these materials they're called play away and what they are it's almost like a little m p three player and you just put it around your neck you lift it up right here and you can push your you put your ear buds in and you can listen while you walk or while you garden or while you do your ironing and you can stop it when you're ready and started when you when you need to stop when you need to and start when you're ready so these are called player ways and you can take them with you we even have current afters that you can plug into your car the audio system through your radio and we have jacks to do that so these player ways are i think something nice for all ages we have them in the children's department in the team department and we have a lot right when you walk in the main floor in the outside right near the lobby we have a lot of these and then we also have what are fun these are called play wave view and these are actually like almost just like a little t v a little t v we have they come but there adapter and you can see it here this one happens to be all the old i love lucy shows oh no we have some dick van dyke we also have some educational ones where you can walk through art galleries and museums so there is a very interesting resources that maybe you hadn't thought about before but if maybe someone is  to to get to the library this might be something that you could bring to them and they could enjoy or they feel you should take checkers i might get a regular i'd like them out as a book absolutely if if you're in a situation where you feel like you need a little more time we can always suggest that just let us know at the desk also other materials that we have we have a great magazine collection and so even health issues we have the consumer reports we also have from the national institute of health the medline plus which are wonderful resources reader's digest and many magazines that people you know if you don't necessarily want to subscribe to them coming to your own mailbox you can get them here at the library for free and all you need of course is your wagon cart that's the that's your key to everything and we also have them available to be downloaded digitally so lonely really want to have it in hand you can get these things through the computer and they're downloaded you just type in your library card number on the back of your library card would be a barcode ok take that barcode number in and that's all you need to help you with that so so those are you know some of the materials there is one other type of material that i thought would be interested to these are called our their memory kids their way to reminisce oh and so we have everything from remembering the automobiles to remembering music to remembering old school days and inside the kids are sometimes there are c d's there are sometimes props this is a this is a hubcap from a model that you know things like this are part of the kids so for people that maybe you want to get some conversation starters with someone from another generation these are wonderful kids to do that many of them have song books inside and handouts are they all just songs of for that era these are these are all called spare parts of this one would be everything we sing a longs in my merry oldsmobile st louis louis california here i come this land is your land there are postcards so the the music is here the print is nice and large but there are some great photographs so these are the kinds of things that you have to bring that center that i certainly well i don't we have a lot of these and these are also upstairs on the second floor so feel free to and we'll check that out bring them there would be wonderful for group activity yeah yeah absolutely about your other program that i see yeah good that's good and i also wanted to mention i brought here at this current television programs series documentaries exercise you name it we have it from comedy to whore to everything in between so we like to think of having something for every well that's where the library is for volunteering and we have a lot of opportunities for that we have obviously opportunities where people could come in and help us straight on the shelves help us put books away even outdoors we have a new pollinator garden that's been looming beautifully so anybody who likes to get out and get their hands dirty would like to help us and we'd with that we could always use a hand with that we have a lovely little fish pond too that if anybody is interested in kind of just looking after that we always are looking for volunteers even for some of our programs to serve refreshments or to help us put chairs away or set up displays so yes absolutely we have a friends of the library group that's part of our peter's township library foundation and they also help us with them with some of our fund raising events there's always opportunities for volunteers to get involved with some of our bigger events through the mere to have like a concert and speaker will be providing us a lot of information and people can come they'll be more information about that in the future that we have brochures like this that talk about our programs these are the august events coming up so a lot of me see if there's any music coming up this month not so much in august but will that occasion it is vacation time we have we do have a community blood drive coming up though and anybody can volunteer for that that will be on august the twenty fourth and so you can sign up here at the library we're also having a summer film fest with the pulitzer prize winners so if you're looking to get out of the heat the library is airconditioned so we 're showing the hours this month and also we're going to feature ken burns and his national parks series this is the hundredth anniversary of the national park service so we've got some d v d s that we are sure you know so for somebody that couldn't be there right exactly you try it when we get permission from the presenter we do try to present those live from on this to something else that clicked that i like it and we're always interested for ways to improve opportunities for people to study and conference rooms too but you never know what you'll find here on a given day by little so it's always busy that's for sure well i think we'll take a little break now get our thoughts all together and everything minutes my grandfather served in world war two spending time with him were the best memories of my life i became a physician in v a because of my grandfather so i can help others like him i can't imagine working with better doctors or more dedicated staff i'm fulfilling my life's mission with the help of my team and thanks to these veterans i'm proud to be a doctor in v a and proud to honor my grandfather every day search v a careers to find out more ok we're back again and we just thought of something else the special is coming up yes so maybe you could tell us about that thank you we do have a very special event coming for the month of september it is an exhibit on lincoln and it was a wonderful grant that was received will have some displays to look at lincoln through the years his history and will even have two special programs to revolve  one is the face of a war torn lincoln you know why what kind of face did he need to show the public during that very difficult time in history and then on the lighter note we have a person who is a lincoln i believe  referred to as an impersonator who comes in and he actually dresses like lincoln speaks like lincoln and it's a little more of a lighthearted program but that will be in september also so we have some very important events historically that you'll get to see september and what part of the library with n p r well at the moment i think we're going to have that displayed in the lobby that's our goal prior to that we have our big our animal fair where the children's department has we bring in all kinds of vendors to help with animals whether it's selling special treats whether it's obedience lessons and just very it's a wonderful day to celebrate the pets in your life and we even have the i mean society who comes and they often bring a few animals that are up for adoption so that will also be at the end of september so our website check our calendar for events because these are all some of the services that the library does well for those that are unable to actually make it to the library we do have a homebound delivery service so if you know someone who is under the weather or not able to get out from their home you can call the library we will put you in touch with our volunteer who will come for a visit bring what it is that you like we set up a little bit of an interview so that we understand what the person is interested in reading or seeing and then we'll deliver those to that person we also have the same volunteer who actually likes to take visits to the various assisted assisted living facilities and we visit them she comes every other week i believe it is takes her bag we had many monahan who did this for only a many many years and she passed away recently and we truly miss her but we have found a volunteer who is willing to step in and carry on that wonderful role of bringing bringing good books and good materials to those people that may not be able to get to the library will bring the library to them that it's a wonderful idea oh absolutely and i know they look forward to her visits  we have also opportunities for donations if we have a used book sale that our friends at the library coordinate on a daily basis and set up in our lobby but it does take volunteer effort to go through the books that have been donated we have a set of guidelines on our website of course we like the books to be in very good condition and relatively current within the last five years of possible and they are certainly looking for volunteers to help with that effort in organizing those materials that they receive other donations in memory of a loved one we certainly always accept donations in the form of monetary donations and we purchase books in honor of someone or in memory also down in our children's depart we have a large wall where we have some books and on the spines of all the books are names of families that have made larger donations so we have a very nice wall of giving that we certainly love to add new names to and then coming up in september we have the the washington county community foundation they have a dave giving and that this year is september the thirteenth and this is the day where everybody in washington county can make donations to their favorite organizations our organization is known as the peters township library foundation and it's important that you put look for the that t you won't see it under p for peters it will be entered t v peters township library foundation and these cards are usually mailed you'll see our advertisements in the paper but there are many organizations that are looking for donations that day and we are certainly the same we are able to add new equipment to the library add new furniture to the library and support our programs with the donations received on the w c c f to giving so that september the wonderful idea it is wonderful because the donations that are made that day are also matched by a pool of donors so you or your donation is really maximized and in that way you can add to whatever ideas you  years so we're already planning ahead for some some dates and changes with that so of course donations will certainly be appreciated will you need money to run in if as you do absolutely these and july twentieth was my first day i retired from the school district in june of that years so i had thirty six years of service to the school district and now had a month off and then july twentieth i began so while when that date came around this year i thought this is definitely been a year of transformation been a big national library or american library association theme that libraries transform and you know my goal was to keep mrs le vision going and to keep in mind what the community has with the community needs and what we have to offer so much anymore libraries are not it's not so much what a library has it's what a library can do for and with the people that it serves so having a cafe having programs teaching classes providing a space for people to meet and learn all the computers you know the futures that we have and all of the materials we talked about today those are all important but also just we like to think of it as the community is living room you know a place where the community can come see an old friend catch up on the the news of the day take a class teach someone something  so it is it's definitely a place of transformation so i i thrilled that i've had this opportunity and have learned so much and the staff here is wonderful very supportive and all  that's you know these kinds of photographs on the far side of the library upstairs we do have some photographs of the library back in its early days so it is so worth just taking a walk through the library to see its history how far we reach out to all ages we we did a big preschool last spring where we had all the preschool teachers and so we were looking to help the youngest even with our book babies which we have tuesday morning program and wanting to learn more about it i thought i knew all about it but i don't know there's still i'm always learning to believe me and that there's a there's a stamp that i have in my office it says you're never done learning learning never ends  and my dad used to always say everything every time a book is opened something is learned just so we've got the book is a military true and if more people would just realize that they are learning all the time yet how much better off they would be sundays so just for the summer but right after labor day on september eleventh we will actually start again with our sunday hours and so on sundays were open from noon until four monday through thursday it's ninety nine friday it's nine to five and saturday it's nine to four come september eleventh will be back to our seven day week schedule and will be here ready to serve those that need us  this is what do we brother even him do computer him we didn't come here that's right it's the other course and then while you're at it you can see the people that are here and me meet someone come into the cafe have a cup of coffee and you know enjoy the space and be a part of our communities living room with as we like to think of it so you have to tell me something about this cafe i mean this is all new yet all this is new it's definitely new one of the things that is not even here yet that we're hoping to bring soon is a vending machine so we have the coffee and we have tea we have hot chocolate it's a self service so we have donations of obviously are accepted for the little cake cups but we hope to have a vending machine too where we'll have some cold drinks and maybe snacks  so that's that's a nice popular attraction duty that wheels are all yes they're going to come after school or they're there on their way in a hurry just need something to help them just drink while they're while they're studying and right below the cafe down coming or you know it was waiting for a ride you can enjoy a spot there in this they'd even have a snack there some of our staff like to go out there and have their lunch outdoors and give you a place to even sit and read in the outdoors and it does that and we have such a supportive community too so i really thank the community for their efforts and the township we're now a township department so we are part of that aspect so we really appreciate the support from our community much for this wonderful interview and tell us all about the library and it was just it was just wonderful bringing back all those memories thank you again you're very welcome this is are my greg overseeing your perspective