It's Graduation Time!

Thinking Library!
Carole Stanger
May 15, 2010

New Books Upstairs @ the library!
Paradise Road by Jay Atkinson
Wrecked by Carol Higgins Clark
Shadow of Your Smile by Mary Higgins Clark
Bride Collector by Ted Dekker
Her Mother’s Hope by Francine Rivers
Shameless by Karen Robards
This Body of Death by Elizabeth George

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.
Monday, May 17: You can start to donate used books in good to excellent condition for the Book Sale!
Tuesday/Wednesday, May 18/19, 6-8 p.m. Washington School Gym, One Stop registration summer library programs as well as a host of other summer activities for young people!
Wednesday, May 19: You can start to register for Summer Library Programs at the library!
Friday and Saturday, May 28 & 29: Friends of the Atlantic Public Library Used Book Sale!
Library will be closed on Monday, May 31 for Memorial Day
Tuesday, June 1st: Summer Reading Program begins for ages 3 years through 3rd Grade!



Did You Know… that from July 1, 2009 to April 30, 2010 patrons of the Atlantic Public Library have saved $1,085,155.22 by checking out library materials rather than purchasing those materials?

Behind My Desk… First of all, I want to thank the Kiwanis Club of Atlantic for donating some special books for our children’s collection and the summer library programs. I was invited to a special presentation last week of these books to the public library, and I got to meet the subject of the book—Josh the Baby Otter! Josh helps tell the importance of water safety for young children. As a result of this, Julie is hoping to bring Josh back for a summer library program.

Speaking of the Summer Library Programs, Julie has put together quite the busy calendar for our youth starting June 1st with the Reading Program. Every year I try to emphasize the importance of reading in the summer. It improves those skills learned the year before in school and aids the student for the next school year. It does not have to be War and Peace (not that I wouldn’t recommend that work to some interested people!), but reading anything that is enjoyable is good.

When I was in school, I LOVED my Summer Weekly Reader! #1: It was mail for me…not my parents, not my sister—me! I read that thing the minute the mail came from cover to cover. I learned about Sherlock Holmes by reading one of his cases. I always wanted to see the Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago because I read they had a train “inside the building!”

I will admit that things were different then, but the world has a lot to offer our young ones and reading is a wonderful way to explore it.

To Katelyn and Jessica—Congratulations on your graduation from the Atlantic High School! These two girls have worked at the library for just about a year now. All of us at the Atlantic Public Library want to wish you the very best in your future endeavors. I know there were times you were not thrilled with tasks you were assigned, but you needed to have those experiences, too! Both of these young women plan on attending college in the fall. Jess has been accepted at Iowa State University in Ames and Katelyn will be attending Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, Mo.

Congratulations to all graduates, and Keep Thinking Libraries!