Library award winners: past, present and future

From what we can glean from our patron comment slips, we run a pretty tight ship here at the Garland County Library. We receive feedback forms with comments such as,

"Best library in Arkansas!!!"
"a wonderful experience every time me and my family visit"
"Library staff is great! Always very helpful!"
"Miss Tiffany is the best!"

on a regular basis. This is truly one of the more rewarding aspects of our job: knowing that we are doing well by you, the patrons, but it is also very fulfilling to know that our work is being appreciated by the library community as a whole.

Recently two of our library staff have received awards for excellence in service. While they are too modest to go around telling everybody, I have no problem bragging for them. This year, the library has two award winners. Your library director, John Wells, has received the Distinguished Service Award from the Arkansas Library Association for his long and, well, distinguished career at the Garland County Library. Our second award winner is Kim Hillison who has won the Lorrie Shuff Paraprofessional Award for outstanding service. These two fine folks join past Garland County Library award winners Donna Rusher (also winner of the Lorrie Shuff Paraprofessional Award) and Tiffany Hough (winner of the Anne Lightsey Children's Librarian Award).

The library has another potential award winner in its midst. Brook Olsen, library clerk, has entered a video in the "Why I love my library" video contest through the Arkansas Library Association.



The winner of the video contest will be announced during this year's Arkansas Library Association conference in September. We think it is pretty great and we hope you (and the judges) do too!