You get people together and you get to know them, and naturally conversations encompass a lot of different areas. And while it continues to serve as a gathering place, the two-room library, which adjoins the Wieting Theater and sits below a Daughters of the American Revolution meeting room, hasn't changed much since Smith was a student. Largely, this is a function of the small library's budget. Mary Ann Holmes, a library trustee and another visitor on that particular Saturday, said she is concerned about the library's future. And by improving out technological equipment we hope to improve the community usage of out facility.
Books are important to learning and to education.
Unfortunately, we don't have as much usage of the library as the trustees would like to see. People, a profile of area residents not normally in the news, appears each week in the community news section of The Daily Star. Send nominations to Lisa Miller, community editor, The Daily Star, P.O. Box 250, Oneonta, N.Y. 13820.