November 2013 Connector
November 2013 Page 1 In This Issue ...Preserving the Past, Informing the Future ~ Disasters in CT ~ ~ New Library Staff ~ Two Important Library Initiatives ~ Governor Rell’s Portrait ~ ~ Museum Muskets ~ The Declaration for the Right to Libraries is the cornerstone document of American Library Association President Barbara Stripling’s Two Important Library Initiatives by presidential initiative, Libraries Change Lives, Ken Wiggin, Page 1 which is designed to build public will and sustain support for America’s right to libraries of all Workers’ Compensation Symposium types – academic, special, school, and public. by Jean Bonzani, WCC, Page 2 Ms. Stripling is encouraging libraries around the country to get citizens to sign the declaration. Hurricane of 1938: Aboard “The Spray” Here in Connecticut, the Connecticut Library by Jenny Groome, Page 3-5 Kendall F. Wiggin Association, the Connecticut Library Consortium, State Librarian and the State Library are working on leading a The North Haven Train Wreck of statewide signing effort. September 2, 1913 by Bill Anderson, Page 6-8 Statistically, Connecticut has some of the busiest, most professionally run, and most well supported libraries in the country. Yet, in an age of scant public 72nd Governor Portrait in Memorial dollars and competing public services, Connecticut’s public libraries must Hall by Ursula Hunt, Page 9 continuously demonstrate their value to their communities. The Declaration for the Right to Libraries will be a good opportunity to increase public and media Researching Accidents and Premature awareness about the critical role of libraries in communities. But to enhance its Death; Resources for Historians and role in the community, a library needs to continuously take the pulse of the Genealogists by Mel Smith, Page 10-11 community.
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