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About Us
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Meet Jean ...
My family has a long history in the Rimbey area. My Grandfather moved onto the farm on which I now reside with my family just over a hundred years ago. I grew up in the area and after flirting with post secondary education moved away when I got married to raise my family. In 2003 we all moved back to the family farm and I became the librarian here in the beginning of 2005. I have had a life-long passion with books and reading. I am also passionate about my community so for me this job is a perfect fit!
Meet Shannon...
I moved to Rimbey from Calgary in the year of 2005. My boys and I wanted to get out of the City and live the country life! It didn't take us long to adjust! When we go back to the City the kids can hardly stand all the commotion that goes on the City. We much perfer the country life and being so closely involved within our community. I love working with children and the library provides this opportunity for me!
Meet Paddy...
I was born and raised here and have always considered Rimbey home, even though I was gone for 22 years. I just retired and wanted something to keep my brain active, as I love books, the library was the right option.
Meet Carrie...
I am a mother of three. I grew up in Rimbey but after leaving for college and marriage didn't come back for 21 years. It's been an incredible move for my family to come home and bring my husband and three children. I love to read and to attend the programs at the library - so working her seemed like a natural progression.
Meet Erin...
I grew up in the Rimbey area on a farm. I went to school in both Bluffton and Rimbey and took a theatre arts program in Calgary before beginning my nursing through distance education. I hope that the experience I bring with me can be used in the children's programming.
We appreciate the dedication, assistance and skills that numerous volunteers have brought to the Rimbey Library over the years.
The Library can always use a few more willing hands. If you have a few hours free each week, or if you have particular skills we might benefit from, please give us a call. Youth can gain valuable experience by volunteering a few hours a week in the Library.
Serving Rimbey and District since 1953
Begun in 1953 by a dedicated corps of volunteers, and with an initial book budget of just $50, the Rimbey Library has grown over the years and through several moves. We are now located on Main Street, in the same building as the Town Office.
Over the years, and under the guidance of a series of dedicated librarians and volunteers the Library has grown steadily, until it now has one of the busiest circulations for a library of its size anywhere in the Province.
We were one of the first libraries in the area to computerize the circulation, and one of the first to offer free public Internet access.
We receive generous funding and support from the Town of Rimbey and Ponoka County. We also receive grants from Alberta Municipal Affiairs, The Alberta Lottery Foundation, and Industry Canada.
Each year we aim to raise at least 5% of our budget through donations and our own
fund-raising efforts.
- After-hours Use of Library Policy
- Internet Policy and Acceptable Use Guidelines
- Books to Shut-ins Policy
- Confidentiality of User Records
- Unattended Children in the Library Policy
After-hours Use of Library Policy
Non-profit groups given permission by the Board to use the library space after hours will take responsibility for appropriate use of the space, and for locking the building and setting the alarm system after they are finished using the space.
Each group will appoint its own facilitator who will be responsible for the following duties:
One master key to the building exists for use by all the groups and must be shared. The group’s facilitator will pick up the key during library hours on the day the group is to use the library (or on the last business day of the library, if the group intends to use it on a day when the library is closed). The key cannot be kept for extended periods, as it must be available for all groups to share. When the group has finished using the library space for that evening (or day) the key will be left on the library circulation desk, locked in the library.
The facilitator will be responsible to see that everyone has left the building (including checking the washrooms) and that all the lights and equipment are turned off at the end of the evening. The facilitator will lock all the doors of the library and of the building itself, and leave the master key on the circulation desk in the library. The Librarian will teach each facilitator how to do this when they come to pick up the master key, during library hours.
One alarm system code has been created for use by all the groups and must be shared. The alarm code will be given to the facilitator when s/he picks up the master key. The facilitator agrees not to divulge this code to anyone. The Librarian will teach the facilitator how to set the alarm at the time when the facilitator comes to pick up the master key, during library hours.
The facilitator of each group will sign an agreement concerning all of the above, and will be required to sign for the key when s/he picks it up during library hours. The librarian will retrieve the master key from the circulation desk and check the key back in when the library is next open for regular hours.
Internet Policy and Acceptable Use Guidelines
Rimbey Municipal Library provides public access to the Internet in keeping with its role of providing access to information and resources to meet the educational and recreational needs of the community. The library has no control over the information on the Internet and cannot be held responsible for its content. As is the case with other materials in the library’s collection, any restriction of a child’s access to the Internet is the responsibility of the parent or legal guardian.
- Computer use is first come, first served, for up to a maximum of one half-hour if others are waiting. Sign-up sheets are at each computer. Sign-up will be strictly enforced. Non-compliance may result in loss of computer privileges. Access to computers may be reserved ahead of time by phoning to book a computer. Appointments will be held for 5 minutes.
- Library staff and volunteers are not available to help users with basic computer use or Internet access. Users should have basic computer skills such as the use of a mouse and an understanding of the Windows operating system.
- A maximum of two people are allowed at a terminal at one time.
- The Library’s computers shall not be used for illegal purposes:
Canadian civil and criminal law prohibit display or dissemination of harassment, libel, slander, hate literature, child pornography, graphic pornography, illicit drug literature, obscene material,
material tending to deprive any person of his or her rights or is an affront to human dignity. - The use of library computers for activities that breach Canadian and International copyright law is also prohibited.
- Materials on the Internet may be subject to copyright laws which users are responsible for upholding.
- Users will respect the sensibilities of others before accessing sites that may
reasonably be considered offensive to others. - Misuse and/or abuse of the terminals, programs, or settings will result in a suspension of Internet access privileges.
- A person under the age of 16 who wishes to use the Internet must have a parent or guardian complete a permission form available at the library.
- Proof of age may be requested by library staff.
Access can be denied in the absence of the required proof of age.
A volunteer or library staff, as available, shall be used to provide library materials to people who are deemed by the library to be in need of such services. Will provide library services to shut-in residents, e.g. of the senior’s complexes, as requested.
Confidentiality of User Records
Only the Librarian and the Assistant Librarian will have full access to patron records. Specifically trained volunteers may assist with the computerized check out and check in of items borrowed by patrons. This activity will put these specifically trained volunteers in contact with the computer record of the patron.
Board members have access only in extreme cases, in order to solve a pertinent or special problem.
All Rimbey Municipal Library employees, volunteers, and trustees shall hold in strict confidence any records or transactions relating to patrons’ individual memberships, use, borrowing, complaints, delinquent accounts, etc. and province.
Staff must not discuss patrons’ preferences except to better serve that patron.
Patron’s records are not available to government agents, including law enforcement officials, except with proper legal authorization.
Unattended Children in the Library Policy
Children under the age of 10 should not be left unattended in the Library.
No child under the age of 10 should be left in the care of another child under the age of 12 in the Library.
Disruptive children age 10 and over will be asked to leave the building.
If a child under the age of 10 is left unattended in the Library, and is in need of adult assistance at closing time, staff shall attempt to contact the parent/guardian of the child to come and pick up the child.
If no guardian can be located, the RCMP will be called to pick up the child.
A staff member will remain with the child until the RCMP arrives.
A note, including the RCMP’s address and phone number, shall be placed on the library front and back doors of the building stating that the RCMP retrieved an unattended child. The name of the child shall not appear on the note.
Staff and volunteers shall not leave the library with the child.
Neither staff nor volunteers will deliver a child home, regardless of whether or not they have consent of the child’s parent or guardian.