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Celebrate Berryville: Map

Last month, we closed for a day for staff training. And you may wonder what we do for staff trainings.

Part of our last training day was devoted to a session on providing reader’s advisory services, which I conducted, and most of the rest of the day was blocked off for us to attend the 2025 Rural Library Network eSummit.

I signed up for an eSummit session called “Plotting Possibilities: Visualizing Rural Library Partnerships.” It talked about how libraries can incorporate creating maps into their programming and services, and it was very interesting. I immediately started wondering about how to apply mapping to our Celebrate Berryville project.

It took me about 6 weeks of planning, researching, and mapping, but we are very pleased to now unveil our Celebrate Berryville map, which features locations highlighted throughout the program. Our hope is it will be an ongoing project and that we can add additional locations that come to our attention in the future.

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Local Roots: November

Lots has changed in the years the Berryville Library has been in our current building. We expect lots will change in the years the library will be housed in the new building we are hoping to break ground on soon. That’s why we think it is so important as we move towards this bigger, better future to remember our roots. To that end, we have created the Berryville Library Legacy Project, which lets donors highlight a piece of local history of their choice by selecting photographs to be displayed on the end of a shelving unit at the new library. We also remain committed to helping create a sense of place through our collection, so we are going to highlight our Arkansas section this year.  Each month, we’ll look at some of the different books and resources in that collection that feature unique parts of the history and culture of Berryville, Carroll County, the Ozarks, and Arkansas. There’s lots to explore about this place we call home! For November, in honor of Family History Month, we’re looking at local history.

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