Virginia Bordwell grew up in Sioux City and moved to Washington in 1972. She has been an abstractor for 25 years and with her husband Rick she owns and operates Day & Bordwell Abstracts. They have two daughters and one granddaughter. Virginia returned to the library's foundation recently, having served as board of trustees president during the 1980s when the building's most recent remodel/expansion was planned. Actual construction occurred after she left the board to serve as a county supervisor. "I replaced Helen Wilson, who had been on the board since the 1920s and who was president for over 40 years," Virginia notes. "She helped select the books purchased by the library, but I did not." Virginia and Barb Shalla, the board's first rural representative, wrote the library's personnel policy and a successful $5,000 grant application to upgrade the heating system. Virginia still has her bookworm pin, awarded for participation in the summer reading program at the Sioux City Public Library.