CRDL Veterans Day Closing

All branches of the Chippewa River District Library system will be closed on Tuesday November 11th, 2008 in observance of Veterans Day and will use this day for staff in-service training.

November and December are certainly busy holiday months and much is done and said about Thanksgiving and Christmas but not much attention is given to Veterans Day. This holiday is especially meaningful to the Chippewa River District Library as our main branch building is named Veterans Memorial Library. It has been our library’s tradition to close the all branches of the Chippewa River District Library system once a year for a staff in-service on or near Veterans Day. This year the library will be closed on Tuesday, November 11. We take closing the library very seriously and try to utilize this day to the utmost. Staff training is very important as we strive to bring you the best service possible.

The significance of Veterans Day is that a cease fire went into effect for World War I on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918. And so this began our tradition of thanking and honoring all those who served honorably in the military – in wartime or peacetime, with Armistice Day on November 11, 1919. Then on June 1, 1954 President Eisenhower signed legislation changing the name of the legal holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day. From 1971 to 1978 Veterans Day was celebrated on the fourth Monday of October but due to public demand the holiday was returned to November 11.