PORT LUDLOW — After 35 years in public libraries, including more than 20 as a high-ranking executive in Seattle’s system, Ray Serebrin has finally found the “community connection” he was looking for — in Port Hadlock.
“You can’t connect to 560,000 people,” Serebrin told 17 business people attending Wednesday’s Port Ludlow Chamber of Commerce luncheon at the Inn at Port Ludlow.
“You can connect to a community this size.”
Serebrin was hired as Jefferson County Library’s director in June 2002, and since then he has been instrumental in providing services that include book delivery to homebound people or “shut-ins,” and expanded bookmobile service to nine locations around the county.
The homebound program, he said, “is a very personalized service” that “develops relationships with shut-ins and understanding their information needs.”
He encouraged business owners and others in the community to help the library system help others in need.
Service to businesses
Serebrin on Wednesday brought a community “work plan” devised by public work groups which will focus on improving service to businesses in 2005.
“We would like to do a better job with our Web presence with linking you to help you do your day-to-day business,” Serebrin told the chamber members.