Meet the Club Librarian By TANYA WHITEHEAD, Librarian grateful CYC thanks Ann Rundle for her years of service as the Librarian! While she is continuing on the CYC Board of Directors, she has graciously welcomed a new member to find a place in the club as the Librarian for CYC. Under her mentorship the new Officer will support all previous goals of the friends of the library and join efforts with other committees to extend the usefulness of the CYC Library to all members. In particular we hope to further our previous success in providing education, historical document retrieval, knowledge enhancement, and, of course, enjoyment. During Ann’s three year tenure as Librarian she shared her love of books and boats by enhancing the previously established Reading Room located at the Western end of the Board Room on the second floor of CYC’s Monroe Street clubhouse. The design committee, then chaired by Jan Kramer, introduced a haven for those with a love of reading and book collections to the club by creating a peaceful refuge to readers and opened the door for members to find both boating information and historical records on the CYC library shelves. The library welcomes members to check out books on the honor system- please just continue to sign out the book when you take it home so we know where it is. We also welcome everyone to take a break from the daily whirlwind of activity and look through some of the collectible books on the shelves. Of course you are welcomed to bring a drink with you and settle in for a relaxing respite and read any library book onsite, as well. Tanya Whitehead, as the new librarian, will follow in footsteps of all the great Committee Chairs who have gone before. Tanya is a college professor and has previously created library/ multi-media resource centers for two universities. She is eager to take up the reins and to help move the library forward under the guidance of the Commodore to build upon the current infrastructure already in place, and to determine an appropriate process for cloud and hard-copy collections. She has already begun to work with the CYC History Committee to preserve multi-media
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and print collections of CYC’s thrilling history. Tanya’s goal is to work closely with all interested parties to find ways to make the library accessible and fully useful to every member of the Chicago Yacht Club. As the new librarian, I hope you will contact me to share your hopes for the library, the needs you may have for any new library services that we could offer, and any tips you have about the location of any books that would be at home on the CYC library shelves. Ann, we all thank you for your years of leadership to the CYC through the library and through all of the myriad activities you have undertaken in the interest of the club and its members.
