Western Maryland Regional Library's Newsletter -- May/June 2021

Join Laura and the WCFL Bookmobile to make a home delivery to one of Washington County's longest bookmobile customers, Chick. Chick's family has used the bookmobile for generations, from her grandmother visiting the book wagon to her great-granddaughters enjoying delivered books today!

This collection is a departure from our usual history collection. It does not deal with events 150 years ago but is an attempt to record the effect of the pandemic in Allegany, Garrett and Washington Counties, Maryland, since March 2020. Images capture details and creative responses that are not easily conveyed through words. We hope that the collection of photographs from the residents of the western counties will assist future generations in understanding the impacts of COVID-19. The collection on https://digital.whilbr.org/digital includes photographs of activities in our three counties, of masks, social distancing, thanks for the emergency and hospital workers among others. We include photos of caring for others, distance learning, new kinds of jobs and daily routines that have changed and how the libraries in the three counties have responded. The hope was that the site would capture how COVID-19 has impacted our community in all of its uncertainty, grief, hope and gratitude. Thanks to all who sent in stories from their branch or their own family.

We'd like to give a shout out to our Western Maryland Library partners who are celebrating an Anniversary in May and June. Way to go! It is a pleasure to be able to honor your years of service with the Libraries of Western Maryland.   STAY CONNECTED:   Learn more about WMRL                                           Wave Archives