Audio Book News!

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!