COLDWATER, MI (WTVB) – The Branch District Library System Coldwater Branch is open again after being closed for remodeling Monday and Tuesday and for the Director of the system, the fixup this week came near the end of a busy first year on the job.
Linda Lyshol has been a librarian since 1999 and has lived around the world, including Saudi Arabia for five years. Her resume shows she was an Air Force veteran and grew up as the daughter of a father who had a career in the Navy.
Lyshol took the position in Coldwater at the end of June 2016, moving to Michigan from Ketchikan, Alaska, where she worked 4-and-a-half years after residing in Oklahoma City for 26 years. She said she went Alaska to oversee the building of a new library in Ketchikan.
Lyshol spoke at Tuesday’s meeting of the Coldwater Noon Rotary Club where she also detailed the many research benefits for business people available with the Michigan E-Library system on-line at MeL.org.
Besides Coldwater, Lyshol directs a system with branches in Bronson, Algansee, Quincy, Sherwood, and Union Township. It serves an estimated 44,000 residents of Branch County and Allen Township in Hillsdale County with the Branch District Library system formed in 1991.
