Library Head Pledges Community Involvement, 1978

Library Head Pledges Community Involvement, 1978

librarians, public libraries

Local newspaper article appearing after open house for new library director, Alfred Garwood.

Tenafly Library Archives

1978

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Library head pkedges community involvement

TENAFLY - At an open house celebration held at the public library reccently, the library's new director Alfred N. Garwood promised to work toward enriching the public library to become a "true commuity cultural center". Garwood, who assumed the directorship Oct. 2, told the gathered dignitaries and citizens that he hoped to make the library "an even more vital, more important, more significant part of the life of the community." PLedging to work with the trustees and the Borough Council, he plans to explore new ways to to do this in coming months.

"Libraries are not just warehouses for books" Garwood said, amd asled fr tje support of the communnity leaders as well as citizens to help build the library.
Garwood, who holds an MA degree from New York University and a M.S.L.S. Degree from Long Island University came to the library from Randolph Township, where he was director of the local library.

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