Exeter Librarian Lynette Trauger
Drop in to the Exeter Public Library and meet the newly
hired librarian, Lynette Trauger.
Trauger has served on the library board for the past three
and a half years in Exeter but she has “always been a library user.”
Although she has only lived in Exeter for about five years,
her husband, Charles Trauger is an Exeter native. They lived in Omaha for
a number of years but decided to return to his home a few years ago.
She isn’t new to the librarian scene as she volunteered in
the school libraries of her children. She hopes to share some of her
experiences there and adapt them for the Exeter library.
Already she is making an impact in the downtown area by
keeping a chalkboard sign updated with new library hours and funny quips on
main street to draw the community into the library. Other changes include
a noticeable straightening up and rearranging of books and furniture in the
library.
Trauger is also working up bringing the library up to date and renewing the library accreditation.
Trauger is also working up bringing the library up to date and renewing the library accreditation.
After the departure of the last librarian Trauger was
concerned, “I didn’t want it to close. I didn’t want it to not be
accredited and fall through the crack and then our community would be without a
library.”
Her plans include offering a story hour for young children
and also a family night. The library board is eager to complete a
renovation of Storybook Park by the spring. Trauger hopes to add a small
free library in the park someday.
“I want to start community programs for the library to
become what the community wants it to become. Libraries are changing.
They are becoming a community resource instead of just about books anymore,”
Trauger added.
Trauger has created a survey about the library and is
looking for feedback from the community. The survey is located in various
locations around town. “Being newer to the community it’s scary.
You don’t know how that’s all going to work yet. I still don’t know a lot of
people.”
The biggest challenge at the library, according to Trauger,
“is keeping a variety here for everyone. If the regular users can’t find
new items to check out they won’t come. I want to keep the curiosity
going along with a good variety but the challenge is to do it on a limited
budget.”
Since she has been cleaning and purging old books and media,
Trauger will be having a big sale of items during the Exeter Avenue Holiday
Sampler on October 6.
Trauger enjoys reading a variety of books in her spare time
and includes painting, drawing and remodeling houses in her list of
hobbies. And while she doesn’t have a favorite author she was very
firm about liking to read fiction, “Because reality is sometimes no fun.”
When she is not at the library you may find her enjoying
time with her family or driving a grain truck and helping with the family farm
just outside of Exeter.
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