Barn Quilt

 I stopped off at the library today.  The snowman display we'd put up during the Christmas in the Village celebration was being dismantled. I'd  received a text reminding me to remove the few snowmen I'd added to round-out the display.  I'd also received a message from the librarian that she couldn't find the 2024 spreadsheet showing the money received at the front desk (payment for making copies, faxes, book sale, monetary donations, replacement for lost books, etc.).  Figured one text could wait until I came in on Thursday for my regular volunteer stint but two texts required a more immediate response.  I walked in and was introduced by the old librarian, Kathy, to the new librarian, Colby.    Kathy had announced last year that she was retiring at the end of the year as librarian (though she would stay on as a volunteer) and the library board had been conducting interviews last month for a replacement.  I hadn't yet met Colby but other volunteers had described her as "young and bubbly".  Fortunately, she came across to me as more "level-headed and open".  I packed up my snowmen.  Printed out End-of-Year graphs showing the number of people using the library per day, by day of week, year over year, etc.  Kathy had by then left for a lunch break but I showed the volunteer on duty and Colby that the document Kathy was looking for was still in the same place and name, just that the current tab on the spreadsheet was now "2025" and she only had to click on the tab marked "2024" to see last year's figures.  Handed the graphs to Colby who seemed pleased w/ them.  (Might be she was humoring me - can't tell yet.)    While we were doing all of that the library was busy - people looking for tax forms, returning/picking up books, using the computers, spreading out papers on a back table in order to work on their own laptop, making copies.  Hope the new librarian is a good fit for us and this library is a good fit for her.