Mary Seat to Resign from Partnership Library

Worth County Partnership Librarian Mary Seat announced she would turn in her resignation after serving 18+ years. Her last day will be August 2nd. “I decided it was time to make more time for myself,” she said.

Seat started serving in January 2001, when the Worth County Library was still housed in the old City Hall building where the firehouse is today. They still hadn’t gotten the loan to build the current facility.

She said she would miss all the aspects of her job – interacting with people, selecting and purchasing books, and sorting them. When she first started, the library was still using the old card catalog system with 3x5 cards; now, it is all done online. She said that the current facilities were much better than the one which they started with.

Seat said the biggest challenge for her was meeting expectations while working part-time 20 hours a week. She said most bigger libraries split everyone’s duties, while she had to do everything. She said that she would be spending her extra spare time reading and sewing and helping out her husband, David.