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Friday Memorial Library marks final National Library Week in historic Glover Park building
Summary
At a public program at Friday Memorial Library in New Richmond, part-time library staffer Todd Kittle recounted the building's local history, the Friday Foundation gift that funded the facility, the roles of longtime librarians and volunteers, and how services and programming expanded before the library relocates from the Glover Park site.
Todd Kittle, a part-time information and reference assistant at Friday Memorial Library, used a public presentation to trace more than a century of the library's history and to catalogue services and programs offered at the Glover Park building as the library prepares to leave the facility.
Kittle opened by noting that the program coincided with National Library Week and that it was "the last National Library Week we will observe in this facility," framing the talk as a retrospective for patrons before the building closes as a library site. He laid out early local efforts to sustain a public library (an 1883 New Richmond Library Association, subsequent subscription models), John Glover's 1913 gift of land for a public park, and the role of the Friday family and the Friday Foundation in funding the current building that opened for patrons in March 1963 and was formally handed to the city later that spring.
Kittle described the Friday Foundation's involvement in mid-20th-century civic projects…
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