Great Escapes Travel Resource Center @ the Hedberg Public Library

Hedberg Public Library opens travel resource center. (Janesville Gazette, 10/19/2011)

Excerpt:     Two months ago, travel materials were spread throughout Hedberg Public Library.

Today, they are housed in one area—the Great Escapes Travel Resource Center.

The new center is easy to spot: its bookshelves are decorated with globes, maps, postcards and suitcases housed in one of the library's half-dozen "neighborhood" sections.

"These are books that got lost in the regular sections of the library," said Carol Kuntzelman, head of technical services and collections manager.

To highlight the items, they were pulled from the far back corner of the library's collection and placed between adult fiction and nonfiction—behind do-it-yourself materials—where they are more visible and more easily accessible.

"This is a one-stop shop," Kuntzelman said.

The center features DVDs, books, travel guides and atlases containing information on area tourist sites, plus hotel and restaurant information. Travel magazines soon will be added, she said.

At Middleton in the early 1990s, we considered this idea after creating a Career and Education Center, primarily a collection of circulating and print reference materials that features college and scholarship information, resume guides, civil service practice tests, and other related topics.  Unfortunately, it was never a project that made it to our top tier of priorities.

A view from the reference desk

(as it appeared in 2008)

End-of range guides