{"id":243880,"date":"2026-05-11T14:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/library-technology-adviser-retires-after-20-years-times-news-online\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T15:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T19:50:10","slug":"library-technology-adviser-retires-after-20-years-times-news-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/library-technology-adviser-retires-after-20-years-times-news-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Library technology adviser retires after 20 years \u2013 Times News Online"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnonline.com\/20260511\/library-technology-adviser-retires-after-20-years\/\">Library technology adviser retires after 20 years \u2013 Times News Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnonline.com\/20260511\/library-technology-adviser-retires-after-20-years\/\">https:\/\/www.tnonline.com\/20260511\/library-technology-adviser-retires-after-20-years\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-11 14:45:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.tnonline.com\">www.tnonline.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Published May 11. 2026 02:45PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Exactly 20 years after she started, Brenda Wentz chose to wrap up her career at the Palmerton Area Library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Friends, colleagues, and plenty of other well-wishers stopped by the library on Wednesday to congratulate Wentz on her well-earned retirement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Wentz, who started at the library on May 6, 2006, had served as the library\u2019s system administrator.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">She explained that after Gerald Geiger retired, Diane Danielson took over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Wentz said both she and Danielson were Girl Scout leaders, and Danielson knew that Wentz had her own business that dealt with personal computers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cI said I was interested in a part-time job, and started out one to two days,\u201d she said. \u201cBarbara Eastland, who was president at the time, said, \u2018we need her more,\u2019 so I went from one day to four days over a time period.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Wentz, of Lower Towamensing Township, described the pride she felt in her role at the library.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cI make sure I\u2019m always helping somebody that needs help,\u201d she said. \u201cI loved the people coming through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Wentz said she always believed the most important job was to meet the patrons walking in and greet them as they leave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cI gained friendships with a lot of people I would have never known,\u201d she said. \u201cWe had two different carriers, and this (Wednesday) morning Russ (a carrier) came in and I said \u2018today\u2019s my last day\u2019, and he said, \u2018I\u2019m going to miss you; you take care of yourself,\u2019 so that made me feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Wentz praised the library for having \u201ca lot of good programs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">\u201cWe\u2019re getting a lot more families with young children,\u201d she said. \u201cBut we\u2019re not getting the teens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Wentz noted the library is lucky to have people that donate.<\/p>\n<p>           &#8230;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnonline.com\/20260511\/library-technology-adviser-retires-after-20-years\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Library technology adviser retires after 20 years \u2013 Times News Online https:\/\/www.tnonline.com\/20260511\/library-technology-adviser-retires-after-20-years\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-11&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":243881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/imengine.prod.ltn.infomaker.io\/?uuid=9d105af2-393b-487e-bcd7-2b4ab3e8c930&function=fit&type=preview","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243882,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243880\/revisions\/243882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}