Riverside Regional Library gives annual report to county commission

The leadership of the Riverside Regional Public Library touted the facility's expansion of programs like author visits, storytelling and crafts as indicators of progress made over the last year Monday.

Nancy Howland, director of the library, gave the library's annual report to the Cape Girardeau County Commission. Howland said with the new age of electronic book downloads, it is important for the library to offer patrons experiences they cannot receive online.

"This is something that you don't get anywhere else," she said. "This is live, one-on-one, face-to-face programs."

She said the library, which serves Cape Girardeau, Perry and Scott counties, has a service population of 66,000, and almost half of that, 32,500 are library card holders.

"We're very proud of that," Howland said.

The Riverside Regional Library was first established in 1955, as a means to better serve the rural areas of the three counties.

In other business

* A motion passed to estimate hail damage to the Cape Girardeau County Juvenile Detention Center and the Common Pleas Courthouse in Cape Girardeau. The damage was caused by Friday's severe storm, which prompted a tornado warning for Cape Girardeau.

* A motion was approved for recent emergency repairs of $5,826.92 to replace all rollers and slides in the elevator at the Administrative Office Building in Jackson.

* A motion was approved to replace the heating, ventilating and air conditioning chiller tank at the Cape Girardeau County Administrative Annex Building, which supplies to both the Annex Building and the Common Pleas Courthouse.

* A motion passed to place bids for tuckpointing of the parapet and masonry repairs on the Cape Girardeau County Courthouse roof in Jackson.

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