Thinking Library!
Carole Stanger
October 23, 2010
New Books Upstairs @ the library!
Worth Dying For by Lee Child
Chasing the Night by Iris Johansen
Cross Roads by Fern Michaels
Her Daughters Dream by Francine Rivers
Playing the Game by Barbara Taylor Bradford
Black Madonna by T. Davis Bunn
In the Company of Others by Jan Karon
Unlocked by Karen Kingsbury
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..
Check out our website http://www.atlantic.lib.ia.us/
The library will be closed Thursday, November 11 in honor of Veterans' Day.
Story Time Programs for 3, 4, & 5 year olds! No registration necessary! Free!
Wed./Thurs. Nov. 3/4 Preschool Story Time 10-10:45 a.m.
Wed./Thurs. Nov. 17/18 Preschool Story Time 10-10:45 a.m.
Election Tuesday, Nov. 2, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Grove Twshp and Atlantic Ward 2 vote at the Atlantic Public Library. For other Atlantic Wards check http://www.atlantic.lib.ia.us/city_ward_map.htm
Monday, Nov. 8, 7-9 p.m. The library will be co-hosting a public informational meeting with the Department of Natural Resources in the library lower level meeting area.
Friends of the Atlantic Public Library Semi Annual Used Book Sale! Friday & Saturday Nov. 19 & 20! Wait to bring your books to the library until after November 2.
Did You Know… that in the last three months Atlantic Public Library patrons have saved over $400,000 by using the library? Times are tough, and people are using the library more and more. The savings from two years ago increased about $80,000. The public library is a very good value for your tax dollars.
Behind My Desk… Last week I attended the Iowa Library Association’s annual conference in Coralville. I’ve been attending these since 1978 when I was a new library Director in Creston fresh out of graduate school. I look back at those days and realize how much I have continued to grow and learn with my profession. Libraries have had to change as times have changed.
This next legislative session will again bring a great deal of change to the state network of libraries, but I am hoping it will be for the better. It’s going to take a new kind of leadership and a new kind of thinking.
It’s time for me to start thinking about the library budget for next year. I know…we are just into this new fiscal year, but I need to be looking at what we need to be doing a year from now. We have so many needs and expenses for library operations continue to increase. The library is just one department of the City of Atlantic, too.
You may have noticed that we have discontinued our books on cassettes collection. Checkouts have declined this past year and our books on CD’s were needing more space on the shelves. We will be including the cassettes in the Friends of the Library used book Sale in November. Also, we switched the paperback romance collection with the books on CD’s to give a little more room for expansion. Along this same line of thought, who do you especially enjoy listening to for readers of audio books? I would love to hear your ideas.
Have a Spooky Halloween and …Keep Thinking Libraries!
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
Friday, October 8, 2010
Preschool Story Times Have Begun!
Thinking Library!
Carole Stanger
October 9, 2010
New Books Upstairs @ the library!
Tough Customer by Sandra Brown
Bad Blood by John Sanford
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Don’t Blink by James Patterson
My Lost Daughter by Nancy Rosenberg
Gingerbread Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Confession of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim
Don’t Cry by Beverly Barton
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..
Check out our website http://www.atlantic.lib.ia.us
Story Time Programs for 3, 4, & 5 year olds! No registration necessary! Free!
Wed./Thurs. Oct. 20/21 Preschool Story Time 10 – 10:45 a.m.
Wed./Thurs. Nov. 3/4 Preschool Story Time 10-10:45 a.m.
Wed./Thurs. Nov. 17/18 Preschool Story Time 10-10:45 a.m.
Election Tuesday, Nov. 2, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Grove Twshp and Atlantic Ward 2 vote at the Atlantic Public Library. For other Atlantic Wards check http://www.atlantic.lib.ia.us/city_ward_map.htm
Friends of the Atlantic Public Library Semi Annual Used Book Sale! Friday & Saturday Nov. 19 & 20! Wait to bring your books to the library until after November 2.
Did You Know… if you have Internet access at home, you can check your library account to see if you have any reserves ready to pick up, place you name for a reserve on a particular book, find out when your books are due and even find out if the library has a certain book? If you don’t have Internet access, that doesn’t mean you can’t ask at the library checkout desk for a book to be reserved or any of the other tasks as well!
Behind My Desk… As I’ve grown older I truly do appreciate automatic door openers into buildings. I also now see a different side when it comes to maintenance of these doors. I cringe now when I see someone force an automatic door to open quicker or wider. Oh, folks, what that does to the mechanics of the door is not pretty. I used to be very impatient with those things, too. I am a whole lot kinder and gentler to those doors now. It’s not a good thing to leave a door propped open when the machinery wants to close it. It’s also not a toy for children to play with, either.
I plan to try an experiment with people who have “smart phones.” My cell phone is not smart. (We’re not talking about the operator here—that’s a given with some of this new stuff!) I think if you can access the Internet with your cell phone, it’s smart. Anyway, I plan to post some barcodes at the library that you can scan with your smart phone for reader’s advisory lists. It’s another way for people to use their phones. (It’s not just for communication anymore!). Just when I think I have almost reached my saturation point with new gizmos, I learn about something that might even tempt me! Those Ipads and Kindles are really cool!
The Atlantic Public Library board and staff wish to acknowledge the wonderful bequest given by the estate of James Hunt. Thank you so much.
…Keep Thinking Libraries!
Carole Stanger
October 9, 2010
New Books Upstairs @ the library!
Tough Customer by Sandra Brown
Bad Blood by John Sanford
Safe Haven by Nicholas Sparks
Don’t Blink by James Patterson
My Lost Daughter by Nancy Rosenberg
Gingerbread Cookie Murder by Joanne Fluke
Confession of a Prairie Bitch by Alison Arngrim
Don’t Cry by Beverly Barton
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..
Check out our website http://www.atlantic.lib.ia.us
Story Time Programs for 3, 4, & 5 year olds! No registration necessary! Free!
Wed./Thurs. Oct. 20/21 Preschool Story Time 10 – 10:45 a.m.
Wed./Thurs. Nov. 3/4 Preschool Story Time 10-10:45 a.m.
Wed./Thurs. Nov. 17/18 Preschool Story Time 10-10:45 a.m.
Election Tuesday, Nov. 2, 7 a.m. to 9 p.m. Grove Twshp and Atlantic Ward 2 vote at the Atlantic Public Library. For other Atlantic Wards check http://www.atlantic.lib.ia.us/city_ward_map.htm
Friends of the Atlantic Public Library Semi Annual Used Book Sale! Friday & Saturday Nov. 19 & 20! Wait to bring your books to the library until after November 2.
Did You Know… if you have Internet access at home, you can check your library account to see if you have any reserves ready to pick up, place you name for a reserve on a particular book, find out when your books are due and even find out if the library has a certain book? If you don’t have Internet access, that doesn’t mean you can’t ask at the library checkout desk for a book to be reserved or any of the other tasks as well!
Behind My Desk… As I’ve grown older I truly do appreciate automatic door openers into buildings. I also now see a different side when it comes to maintenance of these doors. I cringe now when I see someone force an automatic door to open quicker or wider. Oh, folks, what that does to the mechanics of the door is not pretty. I used to be very impatient with those things, too. I am a whole lot kinder and gentler to those doors now. It’s not a good thing to leave a door propped open when the machinery wants to close it. It’s also not a toy for children to play with, either.
I plan to try an experiment with people who have “smart phones.” My cell phone is not smart. (We’re not talking about the operator here—that’s a given with some of this new stuff!) I think if you can access the Internet with your cell phone, it’s smart. Anyway, I plan to post some barcodes at the library that you can scan with your smart phone for reader’s advisory lists. It’s another way for people to use their phones. (It’s not just for communication anymore!). Just when I think I have almost reached my saturation point with new gizmos, I learn about something that might even tempt me! Those Ipads and Kindles are really cool!
The Atlantic Public Library board and staff wish to acknowledge the wonderful bequest given by the estate of James Hunt. Thank you so much.
…Keep Thinking Libraries!
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