Thinking Library!
Carole Stanger
August 4, 2012
New Books
Upstairs @ the library!
Buried in the Sky by
Peter Zuckerman
Coming
Home by Karen Kingsbury
Beautiful
Disaster by Jamie McGuire
Fatal
Debt by
John Gapper
Sky
Dragons by Anne McCaffrey
Tuesday’s
Child by Fern Michaels
Bloodline
by James Rollins
Touching
the Sky by Tracie
Peterson
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 Board regular meeting Monday, August 13, 2012, 5:30 p.m. meeting room upstairs.
Did You
Know… Atlantic Public Library patrons saved
$1,273,867.04 by checking out library items from July 2011 through June 2012?
Behind My
Desk… This
desk has been somewhat idle for the past four weeks. I’ve been on sick leave with surgery on my
foot. I’m slowly getting back on my feet
(so to speak). The weather has been a
hot one; and for that that, I am thankful I have been at home with a running
air conditioner. At least now I can drive
again!
I’ve been working on annual reports for this
past fiscal year that ended on June 30. Here
a few bits of information:
- Library collection is worth about $631,905.
- Without counting in-house use of materials we checked out 89110 library items.
- Over 100,100 people have come through our library doors.
- There were 85 different children’s programs with an attendance of 1750 participants.
- We received 379 items for our patrons through Inter-Library Loan and sent 131 to other library throughout the state.
New employees are usually overwhelmed with the
amount of work that goes on “behind the scenes” at a library. They gain a new respect for the work that is expected
of them every day.
To my entire library staff, I say a grateful “Thank
you!” They have managed to keep things
in good shape. It’s been an
extraordinarily busy month at the library, and yet, they have continued to keep
up the good work.
Enjoy what’s left of your summer, and…Keep
Thinking Libraries!
