About Morrisson-Reeves Library

• Hours of operation
• Contact Library Staff
• Map to Our library
• Library Mission Statement
• Acceptable Use Policy
• History of MRL
• Meet the Library Board Members

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Morrisson-Reeves Library

80 North 6th Street

Richmond, Indiana 47374 USA

Phone (765) 966-8291

Fax (765) 962-1318 

Bookmark us at http://www.mrlinfo.org

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Contact Library Staff

 

Library Director Carol B. McKey, mckey@mrlinfo.org Human Resources Manager Laura Kehlenbrink, SPHR kehlenbrink@mrlinfo.org Library Business Manager Barbara Roll roll@mrlinfo.org Automation Services Manager Paul McGraw, mcgraw@mrlinfo.org Audio Visual Services Manager Alex Sarkissian alex@mrlinfo.org Archivist Sue King, king@mrlinfo.org Public Relations Susan Cook cook@mrlinfo.org

Circulation Services Manager Linda Kautz, kautz@mrlinfo.org Technical Services Manager Carol McCafferty, mccafferty@mrlinfo.org Children's Services Manager Misti Harris, harris@mrlinfo.org Outreach Services Manager Lou Spicer,  lspicer@mrlinfo.org Reference Services Manager Mary Thiedeman, thiedeman@mrlinfo.org Webmaster & Printing Services Jenie Lahmann, lahmann@mrlinfo.org

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MRL’s Mission Statement

MRL serves as a significant information resource for our community. MRL provides diverse, dynamic services, programs and materials for people of all ages. Special emphasis is placed upon literacy and reading.

Rationale for MRL Mission Statement

The library’s mission statement is a description of the library’s vision of the roles it will take within the community. Drafting the MRL Mission Statement came after township residents were surveyed concerning their attitudes and beliefs about the Library, their personal library experiences and suggestions for improving library service. Along with the survey results the members of the Long Range Planning Committee discussed with staff members their ideas and aspirations for future direction of the Library.

The committee then drafted the Mission Statement as a first step in focusing upon specific community expectations and needs teamed with generalities about the direction of public library service in general.

MRL Roles for Service

Primary Roles

Reference Library: The Library actively provides timely, accurate and useful information for community residents in their pursuit of job-related and personal interests. The Library provides on-site and telephone as well as electronic reference/information services to aid users in locating needed information.

Popular Materials Library: The Library features current, high demand, high interest materials in a variety of formats for persons of all ages. The Library actively promotes and encourages the uses of its collections.

Secondary Roles

Preschooler’s Door to Learning: The Library encourages young children to develop an interest in reading and lifelong learning through services for children and for parents and children together. Parents and other caregivers can locate materials on reading readiness, parenting, child care and child development. Cooperation with other agencies in the community is on-going.

Independent Learning Center: The Library supports individuals of all ages pursuing a sustained program of learning independent of any education provider. These individuals set their own learning objectives to meet such concerns as citizen education, self-improvement, job-related development, hobbies and cultural interests.

GOAL: Morrisson-Reeves Library meets the recreational, informational and educational needs of people of all ages and ability levels. Focus is on providing materials in a variety of presentations and technologies in diverse subject areas that represent broad viewpoints with a special emphasis upon high demand items.

 

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MRL Board of Trustees

What are the best things about Morrisson-Reeves Library? What is the library's role in the community? How will the library change with the future? These are the questions posed to the Board of Trustees of Morrisson-Reeves Library. And their answers, unknown to them, were generally the same. The library is a place that provides access to information and entertainment for a diverse community. While the future holds many changes in technology, their view is that the library's role will remain the same; to provide access to information and entertainment for a diverse community. And the best thing about the library? You guessed it; entertainment and access to information. The response to these questions indicate the approach the board takes when charting a course for the library, whether navigating through the present or sailing on to the future. The most important concept taken into consideration is access. Access to all members of the community to as much information as they need whether it be through materials, programs or new technology.

Member	Position	On Board Since
Linda Ronald, PhD	President	1995
Marjorie Sweet	Vice President	1999
Kent Klinge	Treasurer	1997
Carol B. McKey	Secretary	1985
Ann Hanes	Member	2000
Typically the Library Board of Trustees meets the 3rd Friday of each month at 9:00 a.m. in the Kleinknecht Board Room.  Occasionally this date is changed. Please contact the library for future meeting dates.