Officials at the Great Falls Public Library are continuing the discussion of options for their funding structure. The library is underfunded and understaffed, Library Director Susie McIntyre told Cascade County Commissioners during an Oct. 6 work session. She said the library is struggling to meet Montana Public Library standards and if they don’t meet those standards, they risk losing about
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The Great Falls Public Library has been approved by the Montana State Library to join the Montana Shared Catalog, which is expected to save the library money and offer more materials. “The Montana Shared Catalog is a cooperative project involving 177 libraries located in 99 Montana communities. Public, school, academic, medical and special libraries have pooled their resources together to
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Monday hours will be restored at the Great Falls Public Library beginning in October, in place of the Sunday hours that typically run October through May. The library board voted unanimously during their Aug. 27 meeting to approve a new staffing configuration that will allow the library to open Mondays 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. year round and be closed
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Here’s a few odds and ends from the Aug. 6 City Commission meeting. Storm Damage The city is still cleaning up after the July 14 storm that included high winds, rain and hail. City Manager Greg Doyon told commissioners that the storm resulted in seven downed boulevard trees; 250 downed limbs and 47 hangers, limbs that hadn’t completely broken off.
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During the Aug. 6 meeting, the City Commission will consider awarding a $315,000 construction agreement to replace the aged and failing basement air handler at the Great Falls Public Library. The agreement is with McKinstry Essention LLC and is a project identified through McKinstry’s 2017 energy performance audit performed at the request of the city. The project will replace the
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The new book drops are now in place at the Great Falls Public Library, replacing those that had been in place since the 1970s. The project was funded by the Great Falls Public Library Foundation for $16,200 and United Materials poured the concrete and provided a $1,000 donation. Library boiler project complete; foundation funds new book drops, computers, materials The
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The Great Falls Public Library is hosting its first Fine Free Fun Run on Aug. 3 from 9-11 a.m. For each lap around Gibson Park, a library fine will be reduce by $2. “We all know that access to books is one of the most important things we can offer children and too many kids in Great Falls are unable
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