New Happenings @ Your Library!

Thinking Library!

Carole Stanger

September 1, 2012

New Books Upstairs @ the library!

          By Starlight  by  Dorothy Garlock

          Inn at Rose Harbor  by Debbie Macomber

          Taming the Wind  by  Tracie Peterson

St. Zita Society  by  Ruth Rendell

Empty Glass  by J. I. Baker

Woman at the Light  by Joanna Brady

Gold  by Chris Cleave

Paterno  by Joe Posnanski

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
• Every Wednesday is Craft Day from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m.
• The Atlantic Public Library will be closed on Monday, Sept. 3 in honor of Labor Day.

• The Library Board regular meeting Monday, September 10, 2012, 5:30

p.m. meeting room upstairs.

• PreSchool Storytimes will be Tuesdays and Wednesdays this fall from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. for 3-5 year olds.

Dates are: Sept.25/26; Oct.2/3; Oct.16/17 & Oct. 30/31.

Did You Know… the Atlantic Public Library had approximately 94 uses of the ICN room this past fiscal year?

Behind My Desk…  Things are starting to settle down after the intensity of this summer here at the library.   I think the young people had a very good experience—which is a good thing.  I hope that more people have become aware of how vital a library is to a community.  It’s not all about the number of books checked out, nor the number of times the library website was used.  It’s the appreciation that your public library is important in your life and your community.  It’s the knowing that your tax dollars have a purpose in the library and you can see the benefits.

Courtesy of the Cass County Landfill the Atlantic Public Library is adding three KILL-A-WATT meter kits to our collection for you to check out!.  If you think your electricity bills are too high, this may help you to locate the sources.  Instructions are included with the kit, so ask at the upstairs checkout desk about borrowing one.  By all means, come in and check the kit out for a month!

In June the library board purchased the ability to start our own ebook/audiobook collection in conjunction with the WILBOR site.  I’ve just added ten new ebooks that are available for download by our library patrons.

It may help on the waiting time for a reserved title; so it wouldn’t hurt to check it out.  I did purchase the three titles from the Fifty Shades of Gray series. This is an experiment to see if this helps our readers of ebooks.  Keep in mind—the checkout period is two weeks for these titles!

Have a Nice Holiday and…Keep Thinking Libraries!