About Us
The Livonia Public Library serves the community as
an educational and cultural center providing free access to
recreational, educational and informational materials and services in
both print and non-print. We are members of the Pioneer Library System
consisting of 42 member libraries in Livingston, Wyoming, Wayne and
Ontario counties.
Library Staff
We are very lucky to have an outstanding group of people helping us in
our library. This fine team helps to bring together children's
activities, reading programs and provides a constant source for
up-to-date books, videos, and information resources. They accomplish
this while maintaining a warm small-town environment.
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Frank Sykes, Library Manager
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Nancy Krause, Senior Library Clerk
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Pam Heller, Clerk
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Luanne Crosby, Library Clerk |
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Linda Day-Palmer, Page
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Jeanne
Enright, Page |
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Lyn Swift, Cleaning
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Livonia Library Board
Livonia Library is guided by the seven-member, five year term appointed
Library Board. They donate their time to assist and guide the library.
Current Board members are:
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Mary (Mae) Sharman, President - term expires 2012
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Sally Collins, Vice President - term
expires 2011
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Patricia Genthner, Secretary - term expires
2011
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Karl Hanafin, Treasurer - term expires 2010
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William Ohle, Trustee - term expires 2013
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Maureen Reynolds, Trustee - term
expires 2011
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Irene Turner, Trustee - term expires
2009
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The Library Board is responsible for setting
library policy. A most important part of the team is the liaison
between the library board and the town board. In addition to attending
the town meetings, we have asked this person to help the library board
by attending the library meetings. A special thanks to Angela Grouse.
The board meets the 2nd Monday of the month in the
local history room at 7:00pm.
Click here
for the Board of Trustees By-Laws.
History
of the Library
The Gahnyhsas-Tecarnedoi Campfire Girls of
Livonia pledged the fist $25 for the founding of the Livonia Public
Library in 1916. In 1917 Dr. Squires purchased the house
belonging to Mary Hoyt and moved the library there after the library
had outgrown its original location.
As the library was again outgrowing its home, in
1927 Dr. Thurlow Patterson, a native of Livonia and resident of Geneva,
Switzerland ,and great friend of one of the original library trustees,
offered to the undertake the construction of a new library in
memory his parents, James and Laura Patterson.
The dedication took place in the Methodist Church
on Thursday, June 30, 1927. Dr. Patterson was unable to
attend the dedication, however, he sent a letter in which he states,
“It is my wish that Livonia accept this building as the
library of everyone in town … Especially I hope and trust
that all who use these rooms will derive as much pleasure from them as
I have derived from giving them in memory of my mother and father to
the town of ‘dear old’ Livonia.”
In 1952 the library was re-chartered as a town tax
supported facility which serves the community as an educational, and
cultural center providing free access to current recreational,
educational, and information materials and services in a variety of
formats.
The cannon
 The
cannon on the front lawn of the Livonia Public Library, (Patterson
Memorial) was presented to Livonia as a thank you gift from
Livonia native, Hon. Oscar F. Williams, former president of Rochester
Business Institute and Consul to the Philippines.
The cannon was cast in a Spanish foundry in 1790
and shipped to Manila, Philippines to be used in its coastal defense,
which was subsequently used during the Spanish American War.
Soon after the surrender of Fort San Filippe to
Admiral Dewey on the May 1, 1898, Mr. Williams noticing that
this beautiful bronze cannon, “San Joseph” with
other cannons were not likely to be used by American forces wrote the
State Dept. asking for its removal to Livonia, along with three others
to be located in Rochester and Cornell, NY, and one in Ohio at the
President’s home.
The cannon arrived in 1900 and Mr. Williams asked
that the cannon be fired every May 1 in commemoration of
Dewey’s victory over the Spanish fleet. Although it
no longer is fired on these dates, it has become a landmark and fixture
for the Livonia Library.
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