About the Library
Meeting Room Schedule - How to get a library card - Hours and Holidays - Location - Contact & Staff Information - Donations - FINES charged at the Library - Volunteering at the Library - Board of Trustees - Friends of the Library - WL Public Library Foundation - WALLA & Friends FILM SERIES
Meeting Room Schedule
How to get a library card
It’s quick and easy to obtain an Evergreen Indiana Library card with the West Lafayette Public Library.
Please bring the following information with you when you come to the Library to apply for your new card:
- You must present a government issued picture ID with your current local address on it
OR
- present your government issued picture ID and
- also show proof of your local residence such as:
- voter's registration card
- car registration
- lease or dorm contract
- property tax statement
- utility bill (telephone, gas, electric, water, etc.) issued within the last 60 days
- bank statement issued within the last 60 days
Hours and Holidays
Effective February 1, 2009
We are open to the public:
- Monday through Thursday* 10 am to 8 pm
- Friday 10 am to 6 pm
- Saturday 10 am to 5 pm
- Sunday 1 pm to 5 pm
*4th Thursday of each month Noon to 8 pm
The Library is closed on the following holidays:
New Year's Day; Easter Sunday; Memorial Day; 4th of July; Labor Day; Thanksgiving; Christmas Eve; Christmas; and New Year's Eve.
Location
The library is located on the corner of Chauncey and Columbia Street in Chauncey Village in downtown West Lafayette. The library building project includes a new parking garage to make parking and access easy for library patrons.
West Lafayette Public Library
208 West Columbia
West Lafayette, 47906
Use this location in Mapquest to get a map and driving directions to the library.
The library has a book drop on the East side of the library (Chauncey Street) and provides a drop box in front of the Payless Supermarket on West Sagamore Parkway. You can return any materials at either of these locations any time of the day or night.
Contact & Staff Information
Contact information
(765)743-2261 -- Main Library Number
(765)743-0540 -- Fax Number.
Reference Desk: refdesk@wlaf.lib.in.us
Children's Services: children@wlaf.lib.in.us
Teen Services Coordinator: teens@wlaf.lib.in.us
Circulation and Patron Services: circdesk@wlaf.lib.in.us
Outreach Services: outreachstaff@wlaf.lib.in.us
Nick Schenkel, Library Director: nick@wlaf.lib.in.us
LIBRARY STAFF:
- Nick Schenkel, Director Letter to library patrons and "What is Nick Reviewing on WBAA radio?"
- Pam Koehler, Children's Librarian: children@wlaf.lib.in.us
- Community Outreach Librarians, Jeff Hoon & Beth Will: outreachstaff@wlaf.lib.in.us
- Ruth Cushman, Patron Services: rcushman@wlaf.lib.in.us
- Jane Dolan, Circulation
- Nancy Hartman, Computer/Reference Librarian: nhartman@wlaf.lib.in.us, Proctor Liaison
Support Staff
- Gale Charlotte, Administrative Assistant
- Scott Tracey, Reference Assistant: stracey@wlaf.lib.in.us
- Linda Klein, Children's Library Assistant
- Phyllis Heath, Circulation
- Elizabeth Cuddy, Circulation
- Joanne Yang, Circulation
- Beth Will, Circulation/Outreach
- Abdullah Mirzoy, Circulation
- John Edgerly, Collection Assistant
Donations
Donations of books, music, movies, magazines, etc. are accepted any time during library hours. Please ask, for assistance, at the information desk, in the front of the library, when you arrive.
FINES charged at the Library
Information about Fines charged at the library.
Volunteering at the Library
Volunteering at the library is an interesting and responsible way to support your community. Volunteers are needed in many capacities. Shifts are usually 2 hours in length. Applications are available at the Check out desk. Contact Nancy Hartman with questions after reading the job descriptions.
Board of Trustees
Mission: The West Lafayette Public Library strives to be our community's center
for lifelong learning, the collector of our community's written and
audio-visual heritage, and the gateway to resources within and beyond
the library's walls.
- Nancy Dunn, President
- A.G. Altschaeffl, Vice President
- Linda Eales, Secretary
- Jeffrey Schwab, Treasurer
- Mark Davis, Member
- Marybeth Miller, Member
- Mark Pugh, Member
The Library Board of Trustees has been in existence since its formation in 1922.
All library board members are appointed by elected government bodies and all members reside within the West Lafayette Public Library District.
Board Minute Archive - Minutes from 1921 through 1940
LIBRARY BOARD AGENDA
Meeting time: Wednesday, August 11 , 2010, 6:30 pm
Meeting place: Library Board Room, West Lafayette Public Library
AGENDA:
1. Quorum
2. Secretary's minutes
3. Treasurer's Report
4. President's Report
5. Library Director's Report
6. Old Business: Evergreen Indiana update;Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation computer project; Personnel Committee Report
8. New Business: 2011 Library Budget for publication; Library Bylaws review; Cooperating with Tippecanoe County and other area libraries; Topics for further action and discussion
9. Comments from the public
10. Adjourn.
Next Library Board Meeting: Wednesday, September 8, 2010 @ 6:30 pm at the Library.
Friends of the Library
The Friends of the West Lafayette Public Library is a volunteer organization which supports the library in day-to-day operations and fund raising. Click here for more information
The Friends sponsor a semi-annual used book sale. The next book fair October 22 - 26, 2010. Donations of used books are accepted at the library during regular hours all through the year. Please place donations under the "Book Fair Donation" sign, which is located in the library's lobby between the south and east entrance doors. Many donated materials are added directly to the library collection. Others are used in the Friends' book sale and proceeds are used to support the library. Don't forget that you will receive a tax receipt when donating! Check out the Friends of the Library BOOK SHOP in the Library! The Friends' BOOK SHOP offers over 2,000 gently used books all year.
Join the Friends of the Library! Come into the library and fill out an application form. $15 a year for individuals or families, $5 a year for students. Other options available too. Please call the library or stop by to learn more.WL Public Library Foundation
The library's foundation supports the mission of the library.
WALLA & Friends FILM SERIES
WALLA & Friends FILM SERIES
All films are shown at 6:45 pm at the West Lafayette Public Library, discussion follows the film.
SPONSORED BY WALLA - Wabash Valley Lifelong Learning Association
WALLA has been sponsoring this film series since 2004. After the films are shown and discussed, WALLA donates the films to the West Lafayette Public Library. Click here for a list of the past films.
WALLA Films & Friends
Fall 2010 Film Series
Mine
Monday, September 13th at 6:45 p.m.
In MINE (2009), filmmaker Geralyn Pezanoski tells the stories of the pets and pet-owners affected by Hurricane Katrina. When the order came to evacuate the city of New Orleans people often had no choice but to leave their animals behind. Although scores of these animals were rescued by volunteers, the sheer number of pets in need meant that many were sent to shelters across the country in order to relieve the strain on those in the Gulf Coast area. Years later, confusion still reigns supreme as pet-owners continue to search for these lost members of their families--some of whom have been legally adopted by their temporary guardians in the interim. Pezanoski’s documentary is an intense and moving film which asks many hard questions and finds few easy answers.
WALLA will present MINE at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, September 13th at the West Lafayette Public Library.
Arsenic and Old Lace
Monday, October 4th at 6:45 p.m.
Poor Mortimer Brewster (Cary Grant) is experiencing a most unusual wedding day. While making a quick visit home to share his joyful news with his aunts, Mortimer learns that his surprise is hardly the only one in store for the Brewster family that day; between his aunts' killer elderberry wine, one brother who believes he's Teddy Roosevelt, and another whose plans possess a decidedly homicidal bent, will Mortimer and his wife ever make it to Niagara Falls? Or will the whole Brewster clan end up in the Happydale Sanitarium?
Frank Capra's Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) will be presented by WALLA at the West Lafayette Public Library at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, October 4th.
Séraphine
Monday, November 1st at 6:45 p.m.
German art critic and collector Wilhelm Uhde (Ulrich Tukur) was hoping for peace and solitude when he rented a rural country house in the last quiet days of the year 1914-he wasn't looking for new artists, and he certainly wasn't expecting to find a brilliant painter in the person of his maid-of-all-work, Séraphine Louis (Yolande Moreau).
Director Martin Provost won seven Césars in 2009-the French equivalent of the Academy Awards-for his biopic of the woman who would one day be known to the world as Séraphine de Senlis.
This film will be presented by WALLA at the West Lafayette Public Library at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, November 1st.
The Secret of Kells
Monday, December 6th at 6:45 p.m.
This gorgeously animated Irish-Belgian-French film tells the story of Brendan and his adventures to complete the Book of Kells before the fearsome Vikings attack the Irish monastery that is his home.
This film will be presented by WALLA at the West Lafayette Public Library at 6:45 p.m. on Monday, December 6th.
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