A public reception to honor Dorothy Bramladge Public Library Assistant Director Cheryl Jorgensen will be held on Wednesday, June 26 from 4-6 p.m. in the library meeting room. She is retiring at the end of the month after nearly 29 years of service.

Jorgensen joined the library staff in November of 1990 as a reference specialist. She was promoted to the assistant director position in 2000 and earned a Master of Library Science degree from Emporia State University in 2002.

In her role as assistant director she managed most of the library’s services for aduls including overseeing the reference department, the proctoring service, and the one-on-one tutoring service; developing hard copy and digital collections; and creating programs and classes for the Learning is for Everyone community education program.

Jorgensen was part of the team that developed and managed the library’s addition of internet and web-based resources to the body of services. That began with a single computer and a dial-up connectiuon and now numbers 20 public use computers, a high-speed cable connection and multiple wireless networks.