In September, Dorcie Dvarishkis from the UM Foundation, Dean Hatcher and I visited the librarians at Montana Tech in Butte and Western Montana in Dillon to share our ideas on fundraising and forming Friends groups. We encouraged them to form advocacy groups for their libraries not only to help raise funds to help them with their collections but to reach out to their communities and put forth the message of the importance of strong, vital libraries. We thank our donors and buyers for making this another successful sale for us. November 20th and a third will be held March 11, 1997. This is a very timely and important topic for citizens and I thank the committee for their diligence and commitment.
Friends are very concerned with the new technology and the effect it has on our library.
In September, Dorcie Dvarishkis from the UM Foundation, Dean Hatcher and I visited the librarians at Montana Tech in Butte and Western Montana in Dillon to share our ideas on fundraising and forming Friends groups. We encouraged them to form advocacy groups for their libraries not only to help raise funds to help them with their collections but to reach out to their communities and put forth the message of the importance of strong, vital libraries. We thank our donors and buyers for making this another successful sale for us. Archives Loses Friend, But Collection Still Grows Like the silent historical resources that inhabit the K. Ross Toole Archives of the Mansfield Library, Dale Johnson, the founding archivist, retired quietly on June 30, 1996. With not much in his hands besides his keys, he said little but the usual good-bye to those he d worked with, some for close to thirty years.