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Aloha Community Library adds hours

Aloha Community Library summer reading program
Rebecca Uyemura helps her granddaughter Alliah Ford, 6, sign up for the library's reading program. Alliah hopes to read one book every day this summer, Uyemura said. (Anna Marum/The Oregonian)
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on October 04, 2013 at 11:37 AM, updated October 04, 2013 at 12:29 PM
New hours
Sunday: Closed
Monday:
10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday:
10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Thursday:
10 a.m.-8 p.m.
Friday: Closed
Saturday:
10 a.m.-5 p.m.

The library is located at 17683 S.W. Farmington Rd. in Aloha, near Bales Marketplace.

The Aloha Community Library is expanding its hours to 37 hours per week – just three hours short of the 40 hours necessary to join Washington County Cooperative Library Services.

After an influx of volunteers, the library added hours on Monday morning, Wednesday evening and Thursday morning to offer a more regular schedule.

However, the library will continue to be closed all day on Sunday, Tuesday and Friday.

Doug Hoy, Aloha Community Library Association board president, said volunteer availability and the board's use of the library for meetings and training sessions are factors in this decision.

"It's one thing at a time, and of course we want to include those days," he said.

Within the next six months, Hoy said the library board hopes to fill two new staff positions. Currently, the only paid staff member is Terri Palmer, volunteer coordinator for the library.

The library will hopefully be open 40 hours a week by May, Hoy said.

"At a volunteer library it's so different because they're volunteers," he said. "You can't take them for granted. The commitment from our community has just been outstanding, and that's what's allowed us to expand the hours."

Hoy also encouraged people to donate books to the library at any time, instead of the first Saturday of each month. The library adds some of the donated books to its collection and sells a portion of the donated books online to raise money for its operations.

-- Anna Marum

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