Has it really been ten years?

We got a postcard in the mail yesterday from the Webster Public Library which just made my jaw drop. It was an invitation to their tenth anniversary celebration on Saturday May 12.  I had to look at it several times to see if I was reading it correctly. Then I had to ask my husband last night if what it was saying was actually true.  The Webster Public Library has been in their “new” building in Webster Plaza for TEN YEARS ALREADY?

It sure doesn’t seem like it’s been ten years ago since the library moved from its home behind the Town Hall. But apparently it has, and the library invited US (and all of Webster, I suspect) to their anniversary party.

For those of you who maybe lost your invitations in the trash can, the celebration is scheduled from 2-3 pm on Saturday May 12, at the library in Webster Plaza, 980 Ridge Road.

I was so skeptical that it’s really their tenth anniversary that I looked up the library’s history on their website.  It’s actually rather interesting, telling the story of how the library bounced around several places since it was founded in 1929, before landing in its current location:

The town of Webster has been fortunate enough to have had a library in its community since 1929.  At that time the library was a single room in the high school building with 657 books, 365 borrowers, and a circulation of 6,246.  In 1957 the library moved to the Emil Reitz building on Main Street in the Village of Webster and in 1959 the library relocated, once again, to a new facility in a wing of the Town Hall on Ridge Road.  In 1975 a library was built at 1 Van Ingen Drive, located behind the Town Hall complex.  In May 2002 the library moved to its current location in a renovated department store in Webster Plaza, 980 Ridge Road.

These days the boasts more than 95,000 items in its collection, and a separate children’s room and teen area.  If you’ve never been there, this might be a great excuse to check it out.

See you at the party!