More Recycling @ your Library!

Thinking Library!

Carole Stanger

February 26, 2011

New Books Upstairs @ the library!

Heartbeat Away by Michael Palmer

Heaven is for Real by Todd Burpo

America by Heart by Sarah Palin

Treachery in Death by J. D. Robb

Digital Photography Simplified by Rob Sheppard

Now You See Her by Joy Fielding

Vicious Cycle by Terry Blackstock

Devil’s Food Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke

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, Mar. 14 5:30 p.m. upstairs
• Wed. Mar 2 Dr. Seuss Birthday party for k-3^rd Grades 2:30-3:30. No sign up!

• Story Time Programs for 3, 4, & 5 year olds! No registration! Free!
• Wed./Thurs. Mar. 2/3 Preschool Story Time 10-10:45 a.m.
• Wed./Thurs. Mar.23/24 (note not 26^th as in Story Time Flyer!) Preschool Story Time 10-10:45 a.m.
• Mon. Mar. 21 “When Dinosaurs Die by Iowa Hospice” for all ages. Preschoolers must be accompanied by older sibling or adult. 10:30-11:30 a.m.

Did You Know… the Atlantic Public Library is a collection sight for empty printer ink cartridges? One of the Boy Scout troops is in charge of collecting the cartridges from the collection box located upstairs in the library.

Behind My Desk… These past couple weeks I have been trying to work on the library statistics page. I haven’t been really satisfied with the format. We are always adding new patrons and depending on where the people live, it can throw off the set up. I needed to find another way to expand the page without juggling information around.

I have worked with Excel for many years and I love it, but it can be a major process to change spreadsheets to fit other spreadsheets. Anyway, that’s what I have been doing lately without pulling out my hair or going blind by staring at the computer screen too long…and I think I’m there! It’s one of those things that go on behind the scenes, that looks effortless but is really a TON of work to put together.

The library has offered to be a collection point for compact fluorescent lamps. I’m glad that we can be partner with the Cass County Landfill operation.

When you think about it, libraries are a perfect way to save the environment and have been long before it was politically correct to do so! I like that!

To totally change the subject (my mind tends to wander), I would like to let you know about a special site on the Internet called Project Gutenberg. Since 1971 this group has been digitizing books that are no longer under the jurisdiction of copyright. There are over 100,000 free books available. Many are what you would call “classics.” Again, I say the word “free.” Anyone who charges you to have the ebooks of Austen, Shakespeare, Dickens, etc. is making total profit off of you. Just go to www.gutenberg.org

March is just around the corner and…Keep Thinking Libraries!