SWON Libraries Consortium

05/13/2026

Show us the best costume you’ve gotten to wear at your library! 🤩

04/21/2026

Happy and ! We appreciate all the good work you do for your communities! 💖📚

Today for we are celebrating . Let’s celebrate and recognize the amazing STARS who work in libraries!!! American Library Association

Tag a library worker you're thankful for!

04/20/2026

Keep fighting the good fight!

02/17/2026

Go for library gold! 🥇📚😂

02/04/2026

Of Lice and Men

-Your turn!

10/28/2025

Don’t miss SWON Libraries’ “Navigating Collection Development After Baker & Taylor” virtual workshop on November 6! Register now to learn practical strategies and connect with library colleagues also going through the same transition: https://swonlibraries.member365.org/public/event/details/c54699248fcec365d705a1d0f55c28cf4e0600f6/1

10/16/2025

Not surprising to us 😉📚

Everyone knows you can save money on books by checking them out at the library instead of buying them. But did you know that libraries can help you save on other things too?

In some locations, you can borrow tools (saving a purchase at the hardware store), take free language classes and even get free tickets to local museums and attractions.

Here are 7 surprising ways the library can help you save money: https://n.pr/3KOBtOx

09/29/2025

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08/04/2025

Don’t mess with librarians! 📚

07/22/2025

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“My dad, Dan Pelzer, died July 1 at the age of 92, leaving me the list of the thousands of books he read since 1962. ALL of his books were Columbus Metropolitan Library books.

Nobody loved the library more than Dan. When we were little, he took us to the downtown library every Saturday morning and enrolled us in every summer reading program. He was a regular at the Livingston and then Whitehall branches until he could no longer read. I'm sure he would be among your highest circulation and longest term borrowers.

We thought about printing the list to distribute at his funeral, but it was too long.

In his obituary, we suggested that people read ‘a real page turner’ in lieu of flowers.”

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Dan Pelzer spent a lifetime in the library. His daughter shared this message with us, and archived his reading legacy online.

Scan through Dan Pelzer’s collection (all 109 pages) at what-dan-read.com.