Although the library facilities plan was not finalized today, I consider today’s City Council + Library Staff and Trustees meeting a firm step in the right direction! I believe that usually when a city -- like Boise -- hires a consulting agency -- like Group 4 -- to create a library facilities plan, involving citizen input, that [...]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE WEST BOISE: INCLUDE US IN THE LIBRARY’S NEXT CHAPTER! West Boise Advocates to Hold Press Conference Urging Inclusion of Library Branch in City Facilities Plan BOISE, ID – Citizens for a Library in West Boise, joined by local elected officials and community leaders, will host a press conference on Monday, October 13, 2025, at [...]

Boise City Council needs our input. Library Staff and the Board of Trustees will meet with City Council on October 14th at Boise City Hall at 3:30 PM, and they're looking for guidance from City Council to formulate and agree upon the library facilities plan.  This is an open meeting, however I understand public comments will not [...]

On September 28th we hosted a booth at Open Streets Boise.  We collected over 201 signatures!  Everyone we spoke with (with I believe a single exception) said they value libraries and wanted to sign our petition to address the library desert in West Boise.  It's great to see how important literacy and services provided by libraries are [...]

Huge thank you to City Cast Boise (Lindsay Van Allen, Frankie Barnhill, and Evelyn Avitia) for helping tell this story, for asking great questions, being patient as I struggled to get my audio working last Thursday, and for editing the interview. You can listen to the podcast here: https://boise.citycast.fm/podcasts/could-west-boise-get-their-own-library

Citizens for a Library in West Boise, Together our emails added over 40 pages to the meeting agenda for the Library Board of Trustees Meeting Wednesday, September 10th!  I was so happy when someone shared the link with me and I saw the meeting agenda, including all our messages: https://www.boisepubliclibrary.org/media/hdsnuwbl/september-10-2025-packet-supplemental-docs.pdf That's a lot of pages for all [...]