Daniel's Realm

     We are in November--Thanksgiving, 2022 is about two weeks away. What a year of changes at the Wauseon Public Library. Our Children's Librarian retired on July 22, 2022, a new Children's Librarian was hired, and she started on September 6, 2022--Her name is Kenzie. Our director announced she was retiring--her last day was August 31, 2022--a search began for a replacement. I applied for the position and was interviewed for the position, but I did not get selected. Our board created a new position for me entitled "Head Librarian' this new position was presented to me at the end of October 2022, I accepted the position. This position is the board's appreciation to me for my years of employment to the library and the praise the board members have received out in public about me. I am so excited about this new chapter in my library career--our new director starts on November 21, 2022, I am looking forward to working with her and this wonderful new opportunit...

 December 23, 2021--Christmas Eve Eve Oh my has it been awhile since my last post--I will have to do updates a little at a time. Here we are Christmas 2021 . . . What a past year it has been, are we going to get back to Normal? I sure hope so! This year marked my 16th anniversary at the Wauseon Public Library, time sure flies it is hard to believe I have been there that long, which by the way, the renovation project on the library was finished by April of 2017--we moved back into the library building the last two weeks of April--2017--Here is a photo of the outside of the library: There are some interior pictures of the renovations, I will have to see if I can find them. For now, let us see what 2022 brings. Have a Wonderful and Safe Holiday Season! 

It has been a very long time since my last post. So much has happened since my last blog post. Earlier this year, Wauseon Public Library, my employer, finally got the go ahead with the renovation project that has been in the planning for about 2 years. The library's foundation is crumbling and if it would not be fixed--within the next 3-5 years the building would be unsafe to be in. With that in mind, since the foundation is being touched, everything else in the building has to be brought up to code for 2016-2017 and also be ADA compliant by today's standards. As a result, the old elevator is not ADA compliant and will be moved to the front of the building--the front entrance is going to be redone and the front steps to the main floor will be relocated. Work began on our beloved Carnegie Building in late August--the Board of Trustees went with a contractor out of Perrysburg, Ohio. There is also an Architecture Firm out of Toledo that has gotten this process started. ...

It has been a year since my last entry to this blog--I have thought about it and thought about and I still am not sure where I want to go with the blog or if I am going to keep it going--I will take it one day at a time that is all I can do for now. Summer 2015 has came and went--it was a summer that will be remember as cool and wet--we had more rain this past summer than I have seen in a very long time and we did not have hardly any 90 degree+ days, a few, but not like we have had in the past. We moved again--this time it was a short move, we are still in Toledo, we just moved across the driveway from the other house we were in--this house we are in now is a better house, it looks small on the outside, but there is more room in here than it looks from the outside--it is a nice place, I am happy with it. This year marked my 10th Anniversary at the Wauseon Public Library and this year I asked if I could step in and become the Teen/YA Librarian for the library--we have not had anyo...

It has been an interesting summer to say the least . . . It was here and is just about gone already--time sure flies. Took a trip the the National Museum of the Great Lakes that is here in Toledo--near the Veteran's Memorial Skyway Bridge--that was an interesting day trip--we toured the museum and the cargo ship that is docked there. Here is my mom and I setting at the sign in front of the National Museum of the Great Lakes. The museum has many artifacts from the Great Lakes it is so interesting to walk through there looking at all the displays of the various artifacts pertaining all to the Great Lakes--there is even a display from the wreck of the Fitzgerald. Another display shows each of the great lakes (a view of them on a scale model without the water, which has the depths of each of the great lakes). There is a lighthouse display of the lighthouses along the great lakes--it was a very interesting trip, I did not know as much as I thought I did about our Great Lakes--I...

Memorial Day 2014 has came and gone already--soon this year will be half over. It has been a little while since I last posted on the blog--busy, busy. The family and I did not really do a whole lot for Memorial Day--we went to Raker cemetery and visited my Grandfather Baldwin's grave and popped into Fulton Manor and visited with Grandma Baldwin--she was glad to see us.  No big cookout, nothing planned. My boss got a wonderful idea at a meeting she attended the Wednesday after Memorial Day--we are creating an Adult Reading lounge at the library on the main floor--we have moved our Mystery Books and Large Print books into this created reading lounge for the summer--we have moved furniture around and it is coming together--the YA Books and our Cafe Tables have been moved over by the Public Computers--the teens sit at the computers and that move has went over pretty good with the teens--maybe we will see more of our YA books going out. Those of you who are in the Wauseon Area, stop...

Alas Winter 2013-2014 has came and went--I am not sorry to see it go, we surpassed the snowfall from the Blizzard of 1977-78--ended up with 85 inches of snow for the Toledo, Ohio area . . . Wow! I have not seen that much snow in my life time, I was little when the Blizzard of 1977-78 went through, don't remember too much about it.  I am glad Spring has arrived, even though Old Man Winter does not want to let go yet! It will warm up later this week and I hope it continues to warm up . . . wonder what type of summer we are going to have?  I guess we will have to wait and see. I have watched a few movies since my last post to the blog.  The first one I seen was "Hunger Games: Catching Fire" that was a really good movie it is as good as the first one, but I am going to re-watch the first one so I can remember what happened. I also watched "Pacific Rim" that was different, but it was good, there is likely going to be another part to that one. I also watched "F...