{"id":17119,"date":"2021-12-15T00:31:02","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T00:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/?p=17119"},"modified":"2021-12-14T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-14T19:34:00","slug":"hailey-library-stocks-up-on-personnel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2021\/12\/15\/hailey-library-stocks-up-on-personnel\/","title":{"rendered":"Hailey Library Stocks Up On Personnel"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Eric Valentine<\/em><\/p>\n

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Hailey Public Library staffers Lee Dabney (l) and Erin Yturri (r). Photo credit: Hailey Public Library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

T<\/span>he Hailey Public Library recently added Lee Dabney and Erin Yturri to its staff, filling key positions in the children\u2019s library and collections department, respectively. Dabney is a well-known Hailey resident, active volunteer and has worked for many years at The Community Library in Ketchum. Yturri comes to the Valley from the Meridian Public Library where she was the Collection Development Librarian.<\/span><\/p>\n

Library Director Lyn Drewien commented, \u201cI feel like we hit the jackpot when these two highly qualified library professionals joined our staff. They are both passionate about libraries and bring fresh ideas to help us better serve our growing and diverse community.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Dabney has been involved with the Hailey Public Library for over 10 years, first as a youth volunteer in charge of the weekly story time for three years. Later, she served five years on the board of trustees, most recently as president, before stepping down this year. She has worked at The Community Library in Ketchum since 2017, responsible for collection processing, library-related electronic and digital services and the weekly story time. She received a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Vermont, Burlington.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI just love books, and children\u2019s picture books are my favorite,\u201d Dabney said. \u201cThe Hailey Public Library is my neighborhood library.\u00a0 <\/span>It\u2019s within walking distance to schools, preschools and daycare and it\u2019s where I brought my own kids for story time. This library has a wonderful collection of kids\u2019 books already. I hope to build on what\u2019s here to make the space even more inviting and expand the collections in new ways.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Yturri comes to the library from the Meridian Public Library where she was the Collection Development Librarian for more than seven years. She has extensive experience selecting all youth and teen print materials, media, video games, kits and special collections. In 2010 she successfully opened the fourth branch of the Ada Community Libraries (ACL) during the recession within a high-needs community and served as branch manager for three years. She also served as the Youth Services Department manager for ACL, leading a team of 15 staff in providing extremely popular programming, services and outreach. Yturri holds a Master\u2019s of Library and Information Science from the University of Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI hope to bring experience, a positive attitude and an outsider\u2019s perspective to my new position as collections manager,\u201d stated Yturri. \u201cLibraries are one of the last places where the community can freely gather and collections are a fundamental part of that. They\u2019re what the public values\u2014whether it\u2019s books, movies or audiobooks that patrons of all ages find on library shelves or digital resources accessible through our website. I\u2019m inspired to make our collections reflect our patrons\u2019 needs and to make all our materials easily accessible.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Eric Valentine The Hailey Public Library recently added Lee Dabney and Erin Yturri to its staff, filling key positions in the children\u2019s library and collections department, respectively. Dabney is a well-known Hailey resident, active volunteer and has worked for many years at The Community Library in Ketchum. Yturri comes to the Valley from the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,78,84,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-17119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-community","7":"category-hailey","8":"category-in-brief","9":"category-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17119"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17121,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17119\/revisions\/17121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}