Disposition of Books at WUU

A message from your Program Council

For those of you who were here in the first years of WUU, you may remember the library that was to be a place where a Unitarian Universalist might want to find out about living our values and principles. Over time it also became the drop-off place for books, CDs, tapes, and other things that people thought might be useful. Technology was making its impact; people were able to gather information elsewhere.

As WUU’s new addition was being designed 15-20 years ago, it was determined that a library was no longer necessary; it was excluded from the building plans. But a few books were determined to be “keepers” and were put in a bookcase in a small room next to the minister’s office.

That room was intended to be a conference room for the minister to use for counseling and small private meetings. But this being during the days when staff were in the office almost every day and no doors to the office area were locked, people had easy access to that room. It became the everyday small meeting place and the catch-all place, just as the library had been.

This past year, as the arrival of a new minister was anticipated, the room was returned to its original intent of being the minister’s conference room. The junk and books were removed. What to do with those books? The Program Council made a decision this month: since it was decided years ago that a library was not needed, we abide by that, and offer the books, free of charge, to all who enter our doors, then give the remaining ones to the “Friends of the Library” at the public library.

Beginning this week, you will see a cart of books in the Gathering Hall. Please take any that are of interest to you – or to give to a friend or relative. But please do not return them or put them on a shelf somewhere at WUU.

Lola Warren, for the Program Council