2024 APL Annual Newsletter

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Many of our programs for adults, teens, and children would not be possible without our community

partners. Partnerships with Lewiston-Auburn Senior College bring us a fall and spring speaker series and a

winter film festival; Healthy Androscoggin joins us several times a year for programs like “Cooking Healthy

on a Budget”; and for children and teens, we work with organizations like the Boys & Girls Club, the Auburn

Lewiston YMCA, and the Community Little Theatre. Our community partners use the spaces here at APL as

a meeting place, whether it’s Safe Voices meeting in the Androscoggin Community Room or Literacy

Volunteers meeting their students in our private Study Rooms. We host monthly meetings for the Stanton

Bird Club; Lewiston Auburn Senior College and the Androscoggin Valley Education Collaborative hold

classes here, and a consultant from the Maine Career Center and Community Credit Union’s Financial &

Life Navigator have scheduled hours at the library each week. Staff members serve on committees and

boards, such as the Auburn PAL Center, Auburn’s Age-Friendly Community Committee, the Androscoggin

Prevention Council (through Community Concepts), and Auburn’s Parks & Recreation Advisory Board.

I would be remiss if I didn’t mention our wonderful partnership with the Greater Androscoggin

Humane Society, for whom we have fostered over 50 cats during the past four years! While we don’t have

the space to mention ALL the amazing organizations we partner with, the above certainly gives you an

idea of the importance of all of our community partners. So much of who we are and what we can offer is

-- in large part -- due to the amazing relationships we have formed with these organizations. We look

forward to continuing these partnerships and building new ones in the future!

With appreciation,

Donna Wallace

Library Director

Director's Note

To Our Newest Employees

Suzanne

Reference

Associate

Paula

Lending

Services

Associate

Stephanie

Technical Lending

Services/Collections

Michelle

Lending

Services

Associate

Jenna

Teen

Librarian

Janine

Lending

Services

Associate

As I think back on my 12 years at the Auburn Public Library in various

capacities, the Media Lab Coordinator, Teen/Collaboration Librarian, Adult

Services Manager, and now Library Director, one constant is the

partnerships the Library and its staff members have forged within the

community. As a key organization within Auburn, Minot, Lewiston, and

beyond, those connections are essential!

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