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Need to access the Oswego Library? Request the Reading Rover to come on over · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Need to access the Oswego Library, request the Reading Rover
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  Speaker 1: to come on over. Written by Eric Shelkopf, This article
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  Speaker 1: is being read by an automated voice brought to you
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  Speaker 1: by Everlett. Reading Rover will be the name of the
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  Speaker 1: Oswego Public Library District's new outreach vehicle. The library District
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  Speaker 1: received almost two hundred submissions to its name the Library
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  Speaker 1: Van contest. Thank you to everyone who participated, and special
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  Speaker 1: congratulations to the two winners who submitted the winning name.
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  Speaker 1: The library district said in a recent social media post,
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  Speaker 1: we appreciate the enthusiasm and support the community has shown
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  Speaker 1: for our new mobile library vehicle. The vehicle, which the
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  Speaker 1: library district acquired for about two hundred and fifteen thousand dollars,
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  Speaker 1: will travel to schools, homes, and other destinations. The need
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  Speaker 1: for such a vehicle has increased as the library district
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  Speaker 1: continues to grow. It's basically like bringing a library to
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  Speaker 1: your neighborhood. Oswego Public Library District Director Christa Katzen has
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  Speaker 1: said it will be really nice to go to schools
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  Speaker 1: and nursing homes and schedule stops in areas. Previous Library
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  Speaker 1: District director Sarah Skilton had led the district's effort to
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  Speaker 1: acquire an outreach vehicle. Skilton retired since September after being
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  Speaker 1: with the district since nineteen ninety four and serving as
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  Speaker 1: its director since nineteen ninety nine. She was a huge
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  Speaker 1: driving force. Katzen said. The district serves a population that
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  Speaker 1: has grown to more than seventy thousand people in an
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  Speaker 1: area spanning more than fifty two square miles. It serves
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  Speaker 1: portions of Kendall, will and Kane Counties and has two campuses,
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  Speaker 1: one in downtown Oswego and another campus in Montgomery. Last year,
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  Speaker 1: more than seven hundred seven thousand items were checked out.
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  Speaker 1: The vehicle will help expand the efforts of library District
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  Speaker 1: outreach manager Build Thurston. He is really limited on what
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  Speaker 1: he can bring because it's basically whatever fits in the
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  Speaker 1: trunk of his car. Kats And said, in addition to
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  Speaker 1: visits to schools and other places, people will be able
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  Speaker 1: to fill out a form on the district's website to
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  Speaker 1: request a van visit. We're thinking of hitting these locations
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  Speaker 1: that are further out and less easy to access our buildings.
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  Speaker 1: Cats And said the vehicle also will serve people who
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  Speaker 1: are homebound, either temporarily or permanently. There's going to be
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  Speaker 1: options like long term home delivery where if somebody knows
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  Speaker 1: they're physically not able to come to the library, kats
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  Speaker 1: And said. And then there's going to be short term
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  Speaker 1: options like if you were just having a baby and no,
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  Speaker 1: you can't get out real easily for a couple of months.
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  Speaker 1: The van has a wheelchair lift that will help those
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  Speaker 1: with physical disabilities access the vehicle. You want it to
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  Speaker 1: be accessible if someone is in a wheelchair, so they
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  Speaker 1: can also get on and look around just like anybody else,
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  Speaker 1: she said. More information about the district is available at
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  Speaker 1: its website oswego dot lib dot dot us