Bob Pyle is retiring after 40-plus years of service as librarian and director of the Northeast Harbor Library.

The library’s trustees are throwing a retirement party for Pyle on Wednesday, Oct. 26 from 5 to 7 p.m. The library’s new director, Brook Minner, will also be on hand to greet people.

According to the library’s newsletter, Pyle began work there in February of 1971 and he became librarian four years …