
Share This Page

Delmont library looking for ways to better the community

| Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2013, 9:02 p.m.

Denni Grassel, director of Delmont Public Library, is soliciting ideas from residents on how the library can help contribute to the community in different ways.

“We realize that libraries aren't just books anymore,” said Grassel, who has been the director since 2009.

Grassel has been the central figure in starting new projects at the library to help keep it vibrant and up-to-date, but she has seen small libraries close and is fighting to keep Delmont's library doors open for a long time.

“We just have to reinvent ourselves every day,” she said, adding that the library is in a great position to bring new things that will benefit the community.

At the Delmont Council meeting last week, Grassel suggested having an open house for local businesses, as well as reinstating Community Days in Delmont.

Borough officials agreed that it would be nice to have the library head a project for the community.

“We sure will think about that,” said council President Jim Bortz. “That's a nice offer.”

Mayor Gill Sanchez suggested making the historic walking tour of Delmont a regular occurrence in the summer as something to showcase the town's interesting past.

“Anything that brings people into the community that they can see the actual community and appreciate the fact that we have a historic town that's kind of a little time capsule would work,” he said.

No final decision was made because council members wanted to make sure that input is heard from the residents.

Matthew DeFusco is a reporter with Trib Total Media. He can be reached at 412-856-7400 or mdefusco@tribweb.com.

TribLIVE commenting policy

You are solely responsible for your comments and by using TribLive.com you agree to our Terms of Service.

We moderate comments. Our goal is to provide substantive commentary for a general readership. By screening submissions, we provide a space where readers can share intelligent and informed commentary that enhances the quality of our news and information.

While most comments will be posted if they are on-topic and not abusive, moderating decisions are subjective. We will make them as carefully and consistently as we can. Because of the volume of reader comments, we cannot review individual moderation decisions with readers.

We value thoughtful comments representing a range of views that make their point quickly and politely. We make an effort to protect discussions from repeated comments either by the same reader or different readers

We follow the same standards for taste as the daily newspaper. A few things we won't tolerate: personal attacks, obscenity, vulgarity, profanity (including expletives and letters followed by dashes), commercial promotion, impersonations, incoherence, proselytizing and SHOUTING. Don't include URLs to Web sites.

We do not edit comments. They are either approved or deleted. We reserve the right to edit a comment that is quoted or excerpted in an article. In this case, we may fix spelling and punctuation.

We welcome strong opinions and criticism of our work, but we don't want comments to become bogged down with discussions of our policies and we will moderate accordingly.

We appreciate it when readers and people quoted in articles or blog posts point out errors of fact or emphasis and will investigate all assertions. But these suggestions should be sent via e-mail. To avoid distracting other readers, we won't publish comments that suggest a correction. Instead, corrections will be made in a blog post or in an article.
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourmurrysville/yourmurrysvillemore/3307392-74/library-community-delmont
triblive.com
crawl=CC-MAIN-2016-50
58743
application/http; msgtype=response
sha1:MNZJFJ4MGFJQIULC6MKDMQUG4XW3WPVJ
<urn:uuid:6aa75335-1b37-4652-84df-462627fc12f2>
2016-12-04T00:13:12Z
107.0.204.193
sha1:7G574V3T7FWJKCFILVKVAND525DECD5U
<urn:uuid:ba80c742-c196-489b-8def-a49907096904>
http://triblive.com/neighborhoods/yourmurrysville/yourmurrysvillemore/3307392-74/library-community-delmont
response
<urn:uuid:15f6158a-1183-4a9f-ab2a-0600fe770d46>
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-31-129-80.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2016-50
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for November 2016
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf