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Ruth Halterman poses at her desk in the old library building.

Ruth Halterman, dressed for Halloween as a clown, stands behind the circulation desk.

Ruth Halterman paints a white star onto a window for the library's summer reading program.

Ruth Halterman, Teri Rogers, Linda Parker, Shelly Grace, Heidi Lauritzen, Jay Van Dyke, Ann Breese, and [unknown] pose in front of the Coralville Public Library.

Heidi Lauritzen, Dot Kohler, Teri Rogers, Karen Hegland, and Ruth Halterman pose in front of bowling lanes. Ruth is holding a sign with the bowling team's name, Bookends.

Teri Rogers, Linda Parker, Rita, Steve, Ann Breese, and Ruth Halterman pose with a sign for the library's bowling team name, Cvl Library Bookends.

Ed La Grange, Linda Parker, and Ruth Halterman pose outside the library with a fall harvest themed display.

Eric Mott, Coralville Library Assistant helped direct traffic to the below ground parking and library entrance where a vaccine clinic was being held in the lower level of the library. The Coralville Food Pantry and Nucara Pharmacy collaborated to put…

The Coralville Public Library Teen Advisory Board requested submissions for art work for the 2021 summer reading program. Lienah Ali was selected as winner for the bookmark design.
Text form post: Congratulations Lienah on winning our Teen Art…

The entrance to the library added guides and signage to help patrons to receive help and continued services from library staff in the library. Though the doors remained closed, the library offered access to browsing and computers by appointment and…

E. Jean Schwab, the Coralville Public Library's first Director, and Ginny Wenman, library volunteer, hold a poster that shows the library's early growth.

Librarian Kayla Cook organizes the Coralville Public Library Seed Library. Kayla planned, created, and maintains the Seed Library, which began in early 2022. The seeds are stored in a repurposed card catalog cabinet.

Five graphics created to advertise the new seed library. The seed library is conceived of and run by Kayla Cook to share and redistribute seeds from the community.

Two photos of the Color with Coralville sheet at different stages of completion. Color with Coralville was a collaborative public coloring page that invited patrons to sit down and color a portion of a large coloring page. The first picture shows a…

A sign sitting on a table in front of a partially colored paper with different designs on it. The sign reads, "Please relax a while and take a few minutes to Color with Coralville! We are taking a time-lapse video from above. Remember to re-cap and…

A series of five graphics from Banned Books Week 2016.

See individual item descriptions for transcriptions.

A commemorative booklet celebrating Coralville Public Library's 25th year of service in 1990. The booklet contains statistics about the library, its staff, and its history.

See Table of Contents for page descriptions.

A borrower card for Poet's Choice, edited by Paul Engle, with Dewey Decimal number 821.08 E58. There are due date stamps ranging from 1973 to 1975, along with censored names of past borrowers.

Two Coralville Public Library cards with cardholders' names covered. The cards came with a note from a former patron, which reads, "I found it in my lock and I am sended [sic] it back to you." See Relation - Gaylord's Charging Machine for more…

Ruth Halterman, Judith Antill, Linda Parker, and Teri Rogers pose with a child. Linda, Judith, and Ruth are dressed in Renaissance costumes.