[Michlib-l] Rural Libraries Conference

[Dawn LaVanway]

Hi Nannette,

I have half my staff that are no longer attending the rural conference just due to the ferry schedule.  I know this winter has been long and drawn out causing many circumstances for the people who did the scheduling to prepare for the conference.  HOWEVER, I would hope they will reconsider what attendees will be going through to just attend a session to make the libraries a better place for our communities...not ourselves.  A life is more important that money. Maybe someone from the Library of Michigan can inform us if what you are saying is true.  It's a rural conference in which small libraries don't have big budgets to fly or pay staff extra time that it will take to get there and back with all the time constraints that are happening due to the weather.

Dawn LaVanway,  Library Director
Jordan Valley District Library
One Library Lane
PO Box 877
East Jordan, MI 49727
(231) 536-7131 extension 222
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Nannette Miller 
  To: michlib-l at mail.mcls.org 
  Sent: Monday, April 28, 2014 12:44 PM
  Subject: [Michlib-l] Rural Libraries Conference


  Hi,  We are curious if others are deciding not to attend the conference because of the dicey conditions.  This is a video of the Sacre Bleu, the only boat Shepler's has running, leaving St. Ignace yesterday.  https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10154104350790217&set=vb.199146720216&type=2&theater

   

  I called Shepler's this morning to ask how 150 people would fit on this boat.  They hope to be able to put buses and vans on the deck and fill them with people, but they aren't sure they will be able to because yesterday ice was coming over the bow.  Getting there is only our first concern.  With a shift in the wind it could jam up again and we could be stranded on the island.  Ferry service is still subject to cancellation.

   

  Are we the only chickens?

   

  Nannette Miller

  Elk Rapids District Library



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