Librarians Celebrate New Beginnings

Sonya Hollins, editor
editor@comvoicesonline.com

Front from left, Judie Rambow poses with Teresa Malynowsky-Rakowsky and Kevin King, as other staff members celebrate her new position. COMMUNITY VOICES PHOTO

KALAMAZOO (MICH.)-Cake, punch and good friends were in the mix at the Powell Library. The celebration was to welcome Teresa Malynowsky-Rakowsky as program coordinator of both the Powell and Eastwood branches of the Kalamazoo Public Library.

For the past five years she has been lead librarian of the Eastwood Branch.  She will now bring her programming expertise to both Eastwood and Powell branches as program coordinator.

Judie Rambow, lead librarian of the Powell Branch in the Douglass Community Center, will now oversee the Eastwood Branch as well as Powell’s operations.

According to  the Kalamazoo Public Library site http://www.kpl.gov/staff/teresa-rakowsky.aspx Rakowsky received her undergraduate degree in Urban Education, as well as a master’s degree in Library Science, from Kent State University  in Ohio. She worked at Cuyahoga Public Library in Cleveland before coming to Kalamazoo.

For nearly 30 years she has been with the Kalamazoo Public Library, the last five years she worked as the lead librarian at the Eastwood Branch.

Sonya Bernard-Hollins

Community Voices was founded in 2005 by James and Arlene Washington in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The weekly print publication provided a unique opportunity to inform the multicultural community of news important to them. In addition, it provided an affordable advertising source for small businesses in the community.