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Cindy retired from her job this week. She was, what 30 years at her previous job, and fifteen at this one? She has a lot of photography ahead of her, and one of her projects is to visit all the public libraries in Wisconsin. She started last Fall, but only got about ten libraries done before we went to Madison a couple of weeks ago.
She visits a library, takes a few photos inside and out, and then does a little research and writes a post about it. Maybe two or three at once. You can read (and subscribe to) them here: https://wisconsinlibraries.substack.com/
She got a tour from the director of one library so far. Hoping that will happen again. Some libraries are more interesting than others. Some are Carnegie buildings, some are in community centers or town offices. Some have their histories right on their websites, some barely have a website. There are eight tribal libraries, that we know of, on reservations.
I'm getting invested in the project. I'm sure I'm annoying her by pushing her to make plans to visit more. And I keep offering advice. Like, do some research before you go, so you know what to look for. Hand out business cards. I'm sure some the things I suggest are things she's already thought of. I also made a Google map. I pinned every library, and populated her list with addresses and websites. There are around 450 of them. I've even found new libraries that weren't on her list.
I'm trying to figure out how long it's going to take her. Two or three years? She can maybe get ten on a day trip. Do that every other week, that's five per week, or less than two years. The ones in northern Wisconsin will require longer trips, but we can get more done per trip because it's longer. I'm trying to figure out some routes, but it's hard to judge how long it will take until we actually do a few. I keep saying "we," but I won't be joining her on a lot of these trips, because I don't have that much vacation.
She visits a library, takes a few photos inside and out, and then does a little research and writes a post about it. Maybe two or three at once. You can read (and subscribe to) them here: https://wisconsinlibraries.substack.com/
She got a tour from the director of one library so far. Hoping that will happen again. Some libraries are more interesting than others. Some are Carnegie buildings, some are in community centers or town offices. Some have their histories right on their websites, some barely have a website. There are eight tribal libraries, that we know of, on reservations.
I'm getting invested in the project. I'm sure I'm annoying her by pushing her to make plans to visit more. And I keep offering advice. Like, do some research before you go, so you know what to look for. Hand out business cards. I'm sure some the things I suggest are things she's already thought of. I also made a Google map. I pinned every library, and populated her list with addresses and websites. There are around 450 of them. I've even found new libraries that weren't on her list.
I'm trying to figure out how long it's going to take her. Two or three years? She can maybe get ten on a day trip. Do that every other week, that's five per week, or less than two years. The ones in northern Wisconsin will require longer trips, but we can get more done per trip because it's longer. I'm trying to figure out some routes, but it's hard to judge how long it will take until we actually do a few. I keep saying "we," but I won't be joining her on a lot of these trips, because I don't have that much vacation.
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