Lodi Woman's Club Scrapbooks-Lodi Public Library

Lodi Woman’s Club Scrapbooks
Lodi Public Library
130 Lodi Street
Lodi, WI

The Lodi Public Library houses a collection of scrapbooks of the Lodi Woman’s Club. The Woman’s Club collected many scrapbooks until the early 1990s. During the library’s remodeling in 1990, volunteers assisted in moving the scrapbooks--person to person--from the old building to the new. There are also scrapbooks showing Summer Library Programs starting in 1961.

Kristine Millard, co-director of the Lodi Public Library, said the library houses bookshelves of local history books and scrapbooks. She found a unique scrapbook of the Merrick Family. The Merrick Family scrapbook was compiled by a relative from Washington State.

Additionally the library compiled scrapbooks during the early 2000s documenting the Summer Reading Program at the library.
They encourage local children to check out a ‘travel bear’ from the library to take with them on vacation and then send postcards to the library during the Summer Library Program from where they are visiting. The library has received postcards from many states, even Alaska, and from other countries, Sweden and Israel.

Entry compiled by Emily Johnson

Images courtesy of Kristine Millard, Co-director