Avon Free Public Library: Keeping the Neighbors Informed

The Avon Free Public Library staff is now offering a hard copy newsletter with updates on library expansion and instruction.

“The goal is when there’s a milestone thing on construction project, we’re going to tell them that," Library Director Virginia Vocelli said at a library building committee meeting on Wednesday. "We’re going to share with the neighbors…. It's a way of letting people know what we’re doing…”

The most recent newsletter, which is available at the front desk at the library, is entitled, "Where's the Book Drop?" It outlines whow to reach the library and the outlets the library will be using to inform the public.

The library is using the following media outlets for updates on library construction:

• Library website: www.avonctlibrary.info; announcements will be visible on the home page.
• Library construction blog: http://www.avonfreepubliclibrary.blogspot.com/
• Facebook: www.facebook.com/avonfreepubliclibrary; you can become a fan for regular updates
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/afplct
• E-mail: Sign up for public library notices at www.town.avon.ct.us/subscriber
• Television: Closings for weather or construction will be announced on NBC30 and WFSB3.
• Radio: Library closings will also be announced on 1080 AM radio

Library renewals can also be made online at www.avonctlibrary.info/Account.htm.

The library construction is 10 days behind schedule due to the snow, but Peter Wells, an architect from Tuthill and Wells working on the project, said that the site is currently in good condition to move ahead.

"The site conditions are the best I've ever seen," Wells said.

The next step of the project is pouring "close to 100 yards" of concrete.

Besides weather delays, Vocelli said limited parking is affecting programming. Staff members are parking across the street at , where overflow parking is also available for library patrons.

Despite minor setbacks, Vocelli said that she has gotten at positive response from the public thus far. The other day there were three or four families who brough their kids to the library and were looking at the bulldozers and construction together.

"The residents can see it happening, so that is great," Vocelli said.