A Special Gift

Thinking Library!
Carole Stanger
March 7, 2009

New Books Upstairs @ the library!
Nemesis: the Final Case of Eliot Ness by William Bernhardt
Cream Puff Murder by Joanne Fluke
Terminal Freeze by Lincoln Child
Love Mercy by Earlene Fowler
Boca Nights by Steven Forman
Handle with Care by Jodi Picoult
Dragonheart by Todd McCaffrey

Coming Events @ the Library!
Library Hours!
Monday – Friday 9:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Wednesday 9:30 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Saturday 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Sundays—closed.

Preschool Library Story Time—Please send a backpack with your child!
Wednesdays or Thursdays 10:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. – 3, 4 or 5 year olds
No registration—just show up! Parents may stay with child, but will be required to participate!
Mar. 11/12 Lucky Leprechauns!
Mar. 25/26 Spring is Here!
Apr. 8/9 Egg-citing!
Apr. 22/23 How Does Your Garden Grow?

Cass Co. Conserv. Program “Alaska” March 14 from 3-5 p.m.

Did You Know… the Cass County Genealogical Society has a new project? They are collecting copies of the Atlantic High School’s The Needle. They will be preserving them by having them bound together. If any of you have some copies of the Needle and would like to donate them to the Genealogical Society, they would be extremely grateful for any donations for this project.

Behind My Desk… We have just added a new service to the library webpage. It’s called NoveList. You will need to pick up the user name and password at the upstairs checkout desk so you can use this at home on the Internet...or use it on one of our public access computers here at the library. NoveList can:

Give you suggestions of similar authors
List award winner authors and books
Give information and suggestions for books discussions
List series in order
Give you reviews about new books

Take a look at it. The same user name and password that is used for EBSCOhost will be used for NoveList. I hope it will be useful for you!

Speaking of books…a book can be such a special gift. Sometimes you have no idea how special. I learned of one such gift a couple years ago. A gentleman whose wife has Alzheimer’s Disease asked me about a little children’s book. He knew I was the library director and wondered if I knew of the title. No, I wasn’t familiar with it, but that wasn’t the real purpose of the question. He proceeded to explain that he had been visiting his wife and there was a children’s book about a cow. He had tried all sorts of things to connect with his wife who had slowly lost her way in life. But that special day she noticed the book and began to read from it. She continued for a couple more days to read it over and over. He got to see (maybe one last time) a spark of her that still remained. There were tears in that gentle man’s eyes as he told me that book was worth more than money could buy. I totally agreed. You just never know…

Keep Thinking Libraries!