2022 in Review
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2022 in Review by Marie Pyko, CEO
What a difference a year can make in the library. When I wrote my annual report message for our 2021 year, we talked about the COVID-19 pandemic retreating and returning to “normal.” We have learned that our library’s former “normal” looks much different now and has impacted the way the library operates, the expectations and needs of our customers in how they use the library, and the retention and recruitment of staff. Each month programs and services looked a little different.
Our new normal has us looking to the future and the changing needs in our community including focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion at the library. We’ve been working with community partners to address the technology-gap in our community (distribution of WIFI hotspots and TSC Get Digital), developing new strategies to keep our community engaged readers, improving access to the library for students and providing opportunities to meet bestselling authors.
Like the rest of the world, the library has been impacted by turnover like we have never experienced before. However, we celebrate the retirements of staff who dedicated their career to this library (see back cover). We also developed programs to prepare staff for leadership through our Emerging Leaders program, a year-long course teaching skills, budgeting, supervisory skills and project management.
