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If libraries are indeed extensions of communities, then the Terrebonne Parish Library System, as well as the “Good Earth’s” community, have to be feeling good right about now.
That’s because the Terrebonne Parish Library System has been shortlisted for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service for the second year in a row.
“I learned a long time ago that a library says a lot about a community, and you can see what this library says about our community, which is one of the greatest in the state,” said Terrebonne Parish President Michel Claudet.
For 21 years, the National Medal for Museum and Library Service has honored outstanding institutions that make significant and exceptional contributions to their communities. Selected institutions demonstrate extraordinary and innovative approaches to public service, exceeding the expected levels of community outreach.
Fifteen finalists in both the library and museum categories were announced last week.
In the library category, the Terrebonne Parish Library System – consisting of nine branches – was selected among 150 nominees and 123,000 libraries.
Library Director Mary Cosper LeBoeuf commends her 69 full- and part-time employees who average 15 years of experience as well as the community with more than 880,000 people visiting the system’s nine branches last year for the systems’ success.
“I thank all of the people of Terrebonne Parish for using the library system, for allowing us to be your library system, because you know, they say, a great library is a great community, and I do think Terrebonne Parish is a great community,” Cosper LeBoeuf said.
The Terrebonne Parish Library System will find out in May if it is selected as one of five libraries to win the National Medal.
Winners will be invited to Washington, D.C. in early April for an award ceremony with First Lady Michelle Obama.
“Oh my God, that would be cool. I could say I met a First Lady representing Terrebonne Parish for something that I absolutely love and believe in,” said Cosper LeBoeuf.
In order for that meeting to occur, Cosper LeBoeuf said the library system got much more detailed about its programs and said much more about the community in its 2015 application as opposed to its 2014 one.
Terrebonne Parish Library System Director Mary Cosper LeBoeuf (far right) announces the library system being named one of 15 finalists for the National Medal for Museum and Library Service. Joining her at a celebratory press conference last week were (from left) former Library Board of Control member Mary Royston and current board members Alberta Adams, Rosa Pitre, Gwen Talbot and Brian Arceneaux.
