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About meIn previous lives I was a materials and inventory control manager (with the Bell Telephone system), a curatorial assistant at the Museum of Primitive Arts and Cultures in Rhode Island, and a night-calfer ranch-hand in Wyoming...
I was hired as "librarian" for Goshen, New Hampshire's rural OPL in September of 2007. I moved to the country, blew up the TV and my hubby and I are trying to make a good home...

About my libraryWe have been weeding and cultivation our collection for a year and three-quarters...less weeding now, but still work to be done. We are ramping up our collection of award winners and local authors, carefully easing in a new direction, toward better service to the adult members of our community as well as young adults. While "little-kids" programs are fewer, they will be more reading-centered to provide a quality experience for children (a little less day-carey and a lot more library). Our challenge is to nurture all levels of readers and listeners, increase patronage through imaginative outreach and encourage active involvement with the library within the community. The increased cost of travel and products will, we hope, work in the favor of all libraries, especially rural free public libraries. This librarian's goal is to provide a broad range of exceptional authors, books, music, and movies to the varied personalities of our Town and surrounding communities. Through a refreshed collection in our little library and the joyous use of our state's inter-library loan program I am hopeful of some modest success in that endeavor.
HISTORY OF THE OLIVE G PETTIS LIBRARY
On June 9, 1803 the Goshen Social Library was incorporated by NH Legislature. The outcome of that original ambitious endeavor failed to make any permanent mark in Goshen's history. The library, as a town supported institution, was established at Town Meeting on March 12, 1889. This was in response to a donation from Sarah Halladay Deming of her beloved mother's "extensive and cosmopolitan" private collection of 450 books. The library officially opened on January 1, 1809 and was housed in various buildings in town over the years until all but 30 volumes were lost to fire in December 1901. The family caring for the collection at that time rebuilt and with community support and donations from the personal collections of Goshen residents a collection was rebuilt...the catalog of 1905 contained over 500 titles. In the summer of 1906, Mrs. Halladay Deming's son, Henry H. Halladay, offered 800 new books and financial assistance to the town for the construction of a permanent library. An unimproved property (also destroyed by fire) was donated by Mr. Elias W. Pike...the same site, once owned by John V. Gunnison, had quartered the original collection in 1890. With the completion of the building the library "came home" on November 18, 1908. Additional volumes were later donated in 1923 by Marilla Zeroyda Parker, a teacher and graduate of Colby Academy, New London, NH. While the main structure remains almost entirely as original, a small addition was added in 1999 in order to accommodate indoor plumbing and an entrance foyer.
In June 2009 a 9X10 storage room was successfully converted into a Computer Resources, Research & Reference room.
(adapted from History of Goshen, New Hampshire by Walter R. Nelson; 1957)

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Real nameOlive G. Pettis Memorial Library

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