Retirement reception is 38 years in the making

Posted: Monday, July 12, 2010, 9:19 am

You're invited to a retirement reception for library director Meribah Mansfield.

The reception will be held on Friday, July 23 from 3-6pm at Old Worthington Library. A program will begin at 5pm.

Meribah, who will retire after almost 19 years of service to Worthington Libraries and 38 years of work in central Ohio public libraries, would appreciate hearing from you before she leaves to focus full-time on her efforts to become an Episcopal Church deacon. Sign a memory book at any library location, or online.

Instead of gifts, Meribah prefers food or monetary donations go to the Worthington Food Pantry. Drop off food at any library location, or make a check out to Healthy Worthington Coalition, Inc. (memo line: Food Pantry) and send to:

Healthy Worthington Coalition, Inc.
P.O. Box 190
Worthington OH 43085-190

When Meribah arrived as library director in 1991, the Worthington Public Library, as it was then called, served the entire school district through only one location and circulated a little over one million items annually.

Today, Worthington Libraries serves the community through three locations and circulates more than three and a half million items annually.

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