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WVGS Open House 2026 The 2026 Open House will be held on Sunday, Oct 25th. We will be honoring the veteran members of WVGS. Pam LaFond is in charge of the display honoring our vets and their family members who served. She can be reached via email on the website under Library Admin regarding how […]
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Stephanie Sparks, 1stvp@azwvgs.org Sheri Erickson WVGS have been awarding Impressive Service Awards more often lately – a sign that a generational change is going on. Our honoree this month has had VAA awards before, but this one is special. Hailing from Van Buren County, Iowa, she graduated from college and became the county home economist,
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Members, Cathy & Bob Gallagher, are Offering to Scan your Photos and Documents This is a WVGS fundraiser offered anytime during the rest of 2026. See details here.
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Stephanie Sparks, 1stvp@azwvgs.org Duplicate Books Team Elaine Wright, Jill Mitchell and Della Jones The Duplicate Books Team at WVGS consists of three people – Della Jones, Elaine Wright and Jill Mitchell. They organize the donated books, price them, put them on the website so they can be found online as well as in the library.
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Starting a New SIG on Hispanic Research There is a new SIG starting up on Hispanic research with Denee Rodriquez. A new member, Margie Chavez, accompanied Lou McLean to the first organizational meeting. There is a lot to learn and such an exciting new SIG for WVGS to enjoy. Check the WVGS Calendar to see
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On January 10th, a party was held at the Library to celebrate one of our long serving and most impactful volunteers, Ed Crabbe. He has been a member of Computer Equipment Committee and has been instramental in designing and implementing the software and database used to house the library catalog. In addition he has written
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Book Awards The Collection Development Committee not only works with collections that are donated to our library, but also gets to purchase books. When one of our members reaches the age of 90, the member can choose a book for WVGS to purchase – the book gets presented at a monthly Membership meeting, BUT then
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Book Awards When one of our members reaches the age of 90, they get to choose a book for WVGS to purchase. The book gets presented to them at a Monthly Membership meeting, then the book goes back to the library to be accessioned into our collection. The only way we know when you have
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Book Awards When one of our members reaches the age of 90, they get to choose a book for WVGS to purchase. The book gets presented to them at a Monthly Membership meeting, then the book goes back to the library to be accessioned into our collection. F. William (Bill) Pack The most recent honoree,
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Book Awards When one of our members reaches the age of 90, they get to choose a book for WVGS to purchase. The book gets presented to them at a Monthly Membership meeting, then the book goes back to the library to be accessioned into our collection. Doris Lea (Newton) Egge At the October 13th
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