Checking out: Sherri Wood ends 36-year tenure as Lincoln's librarian

Ronald Reagan was President, no one had heard of the internet and deer were more of a traffic problem in Lincoln than cars, trucks or semis when Sherri Wood began her job as library director at the Lincoln Library.

"I started when my oldest boy was a baby. He turned 36 and I thought, 'What? I think I've been here a long time,'" Wood said, showing her deadpan sense of humor last Wednesday as he...