WHY DOESN’T THE SOMONAUK LIBRARY BUILD A JOINT LIBRARY WITH THE SOMONAUK SCHOOL DISTRICT?
A. Although at first combining school and public libraries seems a logical and reasonable idea, there are significant obstacles to establishing libraries, which are effective both as school libraries and as public libraries. Several reasons being: different missions, different hours, different staff pay scales, young library users commingled with older patrons, different book collection and internet standards, site access and security issues and of course different funding sources.
