Sierra Vista, Ariz.
As part of its partnership, the library ensures its collection has the books on the base's specified reading lists. Photo submitted.
When the base library on Fort Huachuca closed in 2007, the city of Sierra Vista, Ariz., wasted no time in establishing a ground-breaking partnership to share the city library with the base.
The Sierra Vista Public Library is now the sole provider of library services to the region’s soldiers and their families. Each year the library engages military families in new ways to ensure the base’s literary needs are being met.
Quarterly, library staff attends the Fort Huachuca orientation program for newly assigned families and offer free library card sign-ups and conduct outreach to spread the word about the library’s story time program and educational classes.
