Time for School!

Thinking Library!
Carole Stanger
August 21, 2010

New Books Upstairs @ the library!
Tough Customer by Sandra Brown
Cobra by Frederick Forsyth
Crossfire by Dick Francis
Veil of Night by Linda Howard
Postcard Killers by James Patterson
Last Lie by Stephen White
Burn by Nevada Barr
Cure by Robin Cook

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.
Thursday, August 26 at 1 p.m. Cass County Genealogical Society meeting.
The Atlantic Public Library will be closed Monday, September 6 for the Labor Day holiday.


Did You Know… that on the homepage of Atlantic Public Library website www.atlantic.lib.ia.us , we have a link to a “Newcomer’s Map to Atlantic?” A new person or family to the community can find out where the schools are located as well as other important locations in our fair city.

Behind My Desk… School has started for another year. The summer was a very busy one here at the library, and now we will change over to a new kind of “busy.” It will take a little while for people to get into their fall/winter routine, but it won’t take too long. The library will have some new faces pretty soon behind the checkout desks, too.

This month marked my 12th anniversary at the Atlantic Public Library. I can hardly believe it has been that long! Lots of things have changed, and I have learned a great deal. I’m a firm believer in lifetime learning. As I’ve grown older, I’ve found that my ideas about managing a library have changed, as well. That’s a good thing. If you are not willing to learn and grow and change to fit the times, you will be left behind. For some people that may work just fine, but a library needs to stay vital to the community. This is the information age…and what better place to stay current than at the library!

I managed to finish the annual library report for the State last week. It takes a while to round up all the information, but I really like to get that little “project” done as soon as I can.

Remember that spring project with my desk and office? Well, change that to a fall project and we’ll see how that goes. (You and I both know it will never be done; but I can set goals!)

Have you taken a look at the upstairs bulletin board? Earlier this summer Janie and I put together a list of steps it takes for a suggestion of a book for the library collection to make it to the shelves. It certainly cannot happen overnight and is a longer process than most people realize. Take a moment to stop and look at what happens behind the scenes.

Time for me to wrap this up. Remember to …Keep Thinking Libraries!