After Contentious Millage Vote, Troy Michigan Public Library Focuses on Providing Services

Troy library vows to increase services. With tax hike OK'd, more materials and programs on the way. (Detroit News, 8/4/2011)

Excerpt: "We're going to look at enhanced services that will change the way we do business," said Phillip Kwik, the library's director of public services.

"We haven't had the chance to be real creative. We weren't thinking of a future."

Kwik said the library is looking into self-checkout machines, new materials and reinstating story time programs and classes. There are also plans to evaluate staffing, which was reduced to 70 people in July 2010 after layoffs, and through attrition is now down to 55.

"We want to plan and see where the holes are now and what we can do," he said. "We'll also engage the community and see how they want their millage money spent."


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