West Lafayette Library Director Honored as Hometown Hero for Building Community Through Books

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00:00The West Lafayette Library is really a magical place.

00:04When you think about libraries as a place where people can go

00:09and just enjoy being a part of a community that celebrates reading and learning

00:15and curiosity and exploration, that is what public libraries are here for.

00:20Mara Honeywell is the director of That Magical Place,

00:23where books are free and everyone's welcome.

00:26It's the library she grew up in as a little girl.

00:29Every inch of the West Lafayette Public Library exists for the community,

00:34but one of Honeywell's favorite corners is the Library of Stuff,

00:38with telescopes, sewing machines, and more, free for the borrowing.

00:43Right now, the library is facing a challenging future,

00:46with funding cuts and changes coming from Indianapolis.

00:49We are a small little library that has a big community that we get to serve,

00:56and we want to make sure that we can continue to serve our community

01:01and get them access to everything that they desire and that they deserve as a public library.

01:08She said one of the best and easiest ways to support your public library

01:12is with one of these, a library card.

01:15It's free, it's available to anyone, it gets you access to everything behind those doors,

01:20and it tells the community that this is something that matters.

01:23I don't know how it's going to all go together,

01:26but what I do know is that we are a reading-focused community,

01:31and that our community is ready to activate,

01:34to make sure that the West Lafayette Public Library is still able

01:38to do everything that we do, day in and day out.

01:42Emily Slater, Star City News, West Lafayette.