Monday, March 26, 2012
The outpost had over 33,000 visits during its first year.
The Evanston Public Library Friends’ experimental library outpost, The Mighty Twig, celebrated its first birthday Saturday with community members, cake and a children’s book giveaway. This time last year, when The Mighty Twig opened the doors to its 900 Chicago Ave. storefront location, it aimed to fill a void in south Evanston library services created when the Evanston Public Library’s South Branch closed after a 94-year run. At the time, sustainability was far from guaranteed. The outpost is run entirely by volunteers, reliant on book and financial donations, and circulates library materials on an honor system. Yet one year later, the library’s recently-released statistics detailing first-year operations seem to tell the story of a place…
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The Mighty Twig
900 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL
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Friday, October 28, 2011
Evanston's south-side storefront library, The Mighty Twig, reported a handful of statistics to tell the their "story of success."
The Evanston Public Library Friend’s experimental storefront library dubbed The Mighty Twig, 900 Chicago Ave., opened just over seven months ago, on March 26. In the Friend’s October newsletter, the group listed statistics that they say “tell The Mighty Twig’s story of success.” According to the Friend’s, through six months the Twig has had 18,017 visitors, 3,481 computer users, 2,591 toddlers at story time, 241 Summer Reading Game players, 509 children check out 6,062 books and a total of 15,297 free books distributed across Evanston. The storefront library was created to fill the void left when the Evanston Public Library’s South Branch closed last February, and is located less than a block south of the previous branch location. Though …
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The Mighty Twig
900 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL
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Thursday, June 16, 2011
Evanston's autonomous Library Board of Trustees faces new challenges and an altered connection to the city as it plans its fiscal year 2012 budget.
Starting next year, Evanston’s Library Board of Trustees will act as an autonomous governing body after adopting a new library fund model last September. But with self-governance comes new financial and political challenges, the details of which the board discussed and debated at Wednesday night’s board meeting. Amid both fiscal year 2012 and long-term planning processes, the board is remapping its relationship with the city by creating a “memorandum of understanding” between the two entities and determining how the new library fund model will finance capital improvement projects without relying on city-issued bonds. With its newly gained powers the library board can levy a tax as a percentage of the money the city collects from property …
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Evanston Public Library
1703 Orrington Ave, Evanston, IL
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Thursday, March 24, 2011
The Mighty Twig is located at 900 Chicago Avenue, Suite 102, near the old south branch library.
It's not a new library branch -- it's a twig. The Mighty Twig, a new experimental library outpost sponsored by the Evanston Public Library Friends, will open its doors Saturday at 10 a.m. The spot is opening in response to the loss of the south branch Evanston Public Library, which recently closed after its budget was cut. Prior to the closing of the south branch, the EPL board voted down a new interim south branch outpost which would have been supported by the EPL Friends group. The measure failed when the board discussed allocating the $60,679 necessary to staff and rewire the proposed interim branch. The Mighty Twig will be run and managed entirely by volunteers and book lending will be based on the honor system. Its hours are Tuesday …
Wednesday, January 19, 2011
With budget cuts, Evanston may soon have to say farewell to the South Branch of the Evanston Public Library.
With budget deficits looming, the Evanston Library Board is expected to make cuts in the new calendar year. And given the dire financial situation, the board has indicated that Evanston’s South Branch will be the first to go. The Evanston Public Library Friends is trying to make sure that doesn’t happen. EPL Friends, which was created less than a year ago, has already been successful in its efforts to prevent closures and gain funding for the libraries. The group rallied the community to prevent the closings of both the North and South library branches in 2010. EPL Friends President Ellen Newcomer said she believes it’s crucial to the community to maintain both branches. “Library branches are about neighborhoods, they’re about building…
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Evanston Public Library - South Branch
949 Chicago Ave, Evanston, IL
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Marcia Mahoney
3:41 pm on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
Mrs. Smith- I am the Director of The Mighty Twig. We count unique computer users on a daily basis. Our annual total is an aggregation of the daily totals. So ... if a patron drops in 3 times in one day to use the computer that person counts one time in that day. If he or she returns the next day to use the computer, he or she is counted once for that second day. Let me know if you have questions… more ›