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Minuteman Library Network moves to new computer system, DRA (Data Research Equipment.) The Friends of the Library fund buying videocassettes (March 1991) TAB article about English Language Learning program. Wayland is one of 77 libraries who received a fax machine from Eastern Massachusetts Regional Library System. Sixteen young authors were honored at the ninth annual Young Author's Party in the Children's Room ( December 1991). Trustees look to increase revenue, including increasing fines, because Town's Finance Committee asked departments to voluntarily reduce their budgets. The library closed for four days due to Hurricane Bob, Former Children's librarian Ann Flowers receives the Emerson Greenway Distinguished Service Award for Librarianship. An Exhibit of photographer Wallace Folsom illustrates the community in the 1920s and 1930s, Accounts of residents living in Wayland during Hurricane of 38 recorded on tape by Dena Hardymon, library announces first dial up catalog to access the catalog available at the library for Minuteman Library Network's 24 libraries (March 26, 1992). Library and Historical Society microfilm The Village Bugle and The Cochituate Jeep which circulated during WWII and the Wayland Chronicle published in 1936-1938. Tab announces 187 Young Authors have been published over the last decade, (June 16, 1992) started by Sandy Bellows. Articles about library budget cuts across the state, (Boston Globe June 21, 1992.) Christine Behr becomes children's librarian. Voter registration takes place at the library. Aids Awareness week observed.