MARION — The Friends of the Elizabeth Taber Library and the library’s trustees and the library itself honored longtime volunteer Nita Howland for her 28 years of service to the library. 

The library presented Howland with flowers, a gift certificate and a “special library cart.” The purple library cart “will be used by the staff and the community within the library,” wrote the Friends of the Elizabeth Taber Library in a press release.

The cart also has a plaque that reads “Dedicated in recognition of Nita Howland for her years of service in support of the Elizabeth Taber Library.”

“Howland organized volunteers and other members of the community, to run the annual Summer Book Sale,” read the press release. “The Elizabeth Taber Library staff and stewards of the library are forever grateful for all the time and energy Nita Howland put into the annual Summer Book Sale events.”