Interim City Manager Kelley Gandurski led City Council in celebrating Karen Danczak Lyons on Monday before her retirement from the post of Evanston Public Library’s executive director. Danczak Lyons will depart on Friday. “Karen has done so much to expand services and has really brought the library to the people,” Gandurski said. Leading EPL for.
Evanston Public Library Executive Director Karen Danczak Lyons will step down in June. Danczak Lyons has worked in her current position for ten years. Because many of her initiatives are wrapping up while others are just getting started, now is an ideal time to depart, she said in a news release. During Danczak Lyons’ tenure,.
Evanston Public Library presented community suggestions for potential changes to the library Thursday in a Community Shareback event. In a series of “listening sessions” that ran from September to December 2021, Evanston residents provided feedback on their hopes for the library’s future. Nearly 200 residents participated in the sessions, which were hosted in collaboration with.
Tucked into the bottom left corner of Evanston’s 4th Ward, a looming stone building with towering windows sprawls across 130,000 square feet. Behind its sliding glass doors, visitors can find two ice rinks, a gymnasium, an indoor track, art studios and a library. Outside its halls lie three turf fields and a community divided.
Evanston Public Library employees and board members discussed the use of racist imagery in one of its displays, as well as how to address racist books in the library’s collection, during an EPL Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday. EPL issued a statement earlier this month apologizing for the use of “thin blue line” imagery in.