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Collinsville, Oklahoma
April 15, 2007
Miscellaneous News
VCO Meet /
Library Week /
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Victory Cherokee Organization (VCO)
April 10, 2007 Meeting
Carman Ketcher, Bartlesville, and member of the Sac & Fox tribe, was guest speaker at the monthly VCO meeting. She told of her tribe's customs and traditions, and showed assorted baskets that she had weaved. Corn and beans, a type that rattled when they were ready to be picked, were passed among the crowd for them to look at. She entertained with storytelling including stories of Whirlwind Woman and Coyote Man, and how the opossum's tail lost it's hair. Following the meeting, members had a auction fundraiser, and enjoyed a covered dish dinner. -- (Submitted)
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April 15-21 is National Library Week
and Volunteer Appreciation Week
The Collinsville Library will be decorating in red, white and blue for the week. I asked several people to write an article expressing their appreciation of libraries. We will also be honoring our volunteers all week with gifts and lots of thanks.
-- Susan Babbitt

Visit the library for more information on:

  • Poster contest
  • Drawing for READ mugs
  • Balloons
Tuesday, April 10, 2007
To: Babbitt, Susan
Subject: Best I can remember, alas. . .

There's something amusing about special weeks. It's always someone's! But on learning this is National Library Week (April 15-21) I was reminded of a great many pleasant associations, some dating back more than sixty years.

Of all treats a trip to the library was most filled with possibility. To borrow an expression from Kipling's young Kim, it was my "wonder house." Everything about it served to impress a child's mind--the flight of broad steps leading up to the downtown Tulsa Public Library, the hushed atmosphere around silent readers with bowed heads, the shadowy aisles of bookcases where the treasure was stowed. . .in picture books at first with their still distinctive 30s illustrations. . .and later in volumes from the adult section, a coming-of-age experience surpassing any other.

Those early trips to the library must have taken place in the evening, or the books under my arm made it seem so--for it was always into a London dusk of Sherlock Holmes I emerged with my stack of mysteries.--All books were mysteries in those days, opening up great expectation.

It's common now to speak of the age before television and computer with a touch pity, as if the new had quite replaced the old. But for me the library will always mean books. The subtlety and unlimited suggestive power of words will always be the real treasure. Already historians are beginning to worry that a culture so wrapped around the electronic image will leave scant record of its existence.

Years ago, when I was a child the family listened regularly to a radio show called "Conversation." Each week three or four convivial sorts would be given a topic out of the hat to discuss. (This was back when conversation was cultivated as a kind of art, a personal skill.) One week the topic was "the most important invention in the world." All so quickly and emphatically agreed on an answer they laughed about there being nothing left to discuss. The answer: the printing press, movable type.

--To which we should quickly add "and the public library." For until books are made readily avaliable they can't be read. It would be hard to estimate the contribution libraries have made to society. The casual acknowledgement made these days to the library is pretty faint compared to what it was in my youth when people thought of self improvement as a personal duty--and went to the library with much the same sense of purpose as they went to church. But for me it was always for the adventure of it I went--and still go to the library.

Recovering from eye surgery I recently called on the library for books on tape, one of them Kipling's KIM read aloud in its entirety. Once again I had occasion to be vividly reminded of the "wonder house," this time the Collinsville Public Library.
-- Bill Winchester

Wednesday, April 11, 2007
To: Babbitt, Susan
Subject: National Library Week

Susan, I hope it’s not too late for this. Thank you and your staff for the great job you do. The City of Colllinsville is so happy and grateful that you are here.

Pam Polk
City Manager
City of Collinsville, OK

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Library Week Letter
Added 4-16-2007
In recognition of National Library Week, I would like to take this opportunity to pay respect to our local library.

The Collinsville Library has been an institution here since statehood, and has contributed to our community in ways to numerous to list.

As Assistant Superintendent of Collinsville Public Schools, I have experienced first hand the many ways that this library has enhanced our educational system

From visits by elementary school classrooms, to assistance with preparation of assignments for secondary students, the library has welcomed all ages. On warm spring days it is not unusual to see a teacher leading groups of students walking from Wilson Elementary to the library. Elementary students are introduced to the different areas of the library, and read to by library staff. Although our schools have on site libraries, students are shown how libraries can be utilized beyond "school" walls.

The library and it's director, Dr. Susan Babbitt, have worked to make certain that publications are made available to students and school employees; whether for an assignment or enjoyment purposes, Dr. Babbitt secures any piece of library material requested.

Dr. Babbitt has brought many special events to Collinsville–author signings, celebration days, books sales. She has made the library attractive to the entire community through her dedicated service.

The Collinsville Library invites the community to utilize the new building for private events. The Library has been gracious in allowing the Chamber of Commerce to hold monthly meetings in the downstairs meeting room. At various times of the day and evening one might see quilters, scouts, philanthropic groups, and others in the comfort of the library meeting rooms.

As the Collinsville Library celebrates National Library Week, we extend our heartfelt thanks for their continuous contributions to Collinsville. May we enjoy many, many more years in this brick building.


Terry Due
President, Collinsville Chamber of Commerce
Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Collinsville Public Schools