Good morning,

Wow, 40 years! That's great! 🙂

Below is our policy on staff recognition. I can speak more about our practices at Friday's meeting. 


The Tinley Park Public Library Board of Trustees has established a Staff Recognition policy to reward long-term employees with personal gifts to recognize their years of service to the library and to the community. 

Employees, both part-time and full-time, will be recognized at five year intervals: on the 5th, 10th , 15th, etc. anniversaries of the employees’ starting date. Recognition will take place at the all staff in-service day regularly scheduled in the spring. 

In addition, retiring employees will be honored by the Library Board of Trustees with a personal gift. The library administrator upon retirement may be feted with a public reception to be held in the Library. Long term employees upon retirement, will have a staff reception held in their honor. The Library will purchase and provide refreshments for the retirement reception. 

 Anniversary Year    Price Range 
5 years              $25.00 
10 years             $50.00 
15 years             $75.00 
20 years             $100.00 
25 years             $150.00 
30 years             $200.00 
35 years             $225.00 
40 years             $250.00 
45 years             $275.00 
50 years             $300.00 

Employees will receive a gift card at the price range that has been established for the anniversary year.

Zach Musil
Library Director
7851 Timber Drive, Tinley Park, IL 60477
708.845.5711 | tplibrary.org

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From: Aaron Skog <aaron@swanlibraries.net>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2025 10:47 AM
To: 'swanboard@list.swanlibraries.net' <swanboard@list.swanlibraries.net>
Subject: [SWANboard] SWAN Board meeting 12/19/25 agenda & packet
 

Hello SWAN Board members—

 

The agenda and packet for this Friday’s meeting is now available.

 

https://swanlibraries.net/meeting/94899

 

One of the topics I have on the agenda is to solicit some of your library’s approach to honoring years of service for your employees. We will have our staff holiday celebration on January 16th and it will coincide with at least three employees reaching significant milestones having worked at SWAN—two staff at 20 years at SWAN and one who just reached 40 years at SWAN!

 

SWAN used to have a policy laying out what could be spent on some gift based on years of service, but this was removed during one of the last reviews of the handbook by HR Source.

 

If you have a practice or some guidelines that could help us, please feel free to share those on Friday at the meeting. You could reply-all here as well.

 

Regards,

Aaron

 

 

Aaron Skog

Executive Director

aaron@swanlibraries.net • 630-326-7022

My pronouns: he/him/his

 

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