Way Library

Please join us at the library on Sunday, August 29, from 2 to 4:30 p.m., for a reception honoring retiring Way Library director Nancy J. Kelley. Mrs. Kelley has been director of Way for nearly 20 years. She has served in leadership positions in public libraries for 33 years.

You are invited to post a message on the online Memory Book, or in person at the library.

Instead of gifts, Mrs. Kelley encourages donations to the Way Public Library Foundation Endowment Fund.

Make sure you check out our online calendar and registration system.  You can sign up for many of the events at Way from any computer.  Check back often as events fill up quickly! To visit our online calendar and registration system, click here.

The library will be closed on Sundays until Sunday, September 12. The library also will be closed on Monday, September 6, for Labor Day.   

Computer classes for July and August are now ready for registration!  Please sign up in person at the information desk.

On Thursday, August 19, the PBS Program Club co-sponsored by Way Library and WBGU-TV (Channel 27) will watch and discuss the documentary "Augustus Saint-Gaudens: Master of American Sculpture." The program will be shown at 11 a.m. with the discussion to follow at about noon.  

This documentary will air on Channel 27 at 10 p.m. on Monday, August 16. It traces the life and work of sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1845-1907) from his birth in Dublin, to his work in New York City and Paris, to his death in Cornish, New Hampshire. The story is woven around in-depth studies of five of his major works, including the Standing Lincoln in Lincoln Park, Chicago, the Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, the Sherman Monument in Central Park, the Diana in the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Adams Memorial in Washington D.c.

Way Public Library once again has been recognized as one of the top 100 libraries in the country. The recently released 2010 Hennen's American Public Library Ratings (HAPLR) ranks Way in 6th place out of 1,764 libraries in its service area population category (10,000-25,000). In the 2009 edition, Way was ranked 10th in this division.

In all, the Hennen system ranks more than 9,000 libraries in 15 areas using federal data. Thomas J. Hennen, Jr. developed the rating system 10 years ago, and it has become widely recognized as a method to compare public libraries across the nation. A competing system, the Library Journal Index, was initiated this year, and it compared public libraries with others having similar annual expenditures. Way Library received a top-10 or "5 Star" ranking in this new index as well.