It's May @ the Library!

Thinking Library!

Carole Stanger

May 7, 2011

New Books Upstairs @ the library!

Hiss of Death by Rita Mae Brown

Eve by Iris Johansen

Quicksilver by Amanda Quick

Sixth Man by David Baldacci

Priests Graveyard by Ted Dekker

Afraid of the Dark by James Grippando

All That is Bitter and Sweet by Ashley Judd

I’m Over All That and Other Confessions by Shirley MacLaine

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, May 9 5:30 p.m. upstairs

• Story Time Programs for 3, 4, & 5 year olds has ended for this school year. They will start back up in the Fall.
• Friday, May 20 Washington 1^st Graders touring the Atlantic Public Library.
• Tues. & Wed. May 24 & 25 6-8 p.m. at Washington Elementary for One-Stop Pre Registration (including summer library programs!)
• Monday, May 30 the Library will be closed in honor of Memorial Day
• Tues., May 31 At Home Summer Reading Begins!

Did You Know… the Genealogy/Local History Room at the Atlantic Public Library have books of information of Cass County Veterans that served in Blackhawk Wars, Spanish-American War, Civil War, WWI and WWII ? The Cass County Genealogical Society volunteers will be glad to show you what all they have!

Behind My Desk… The other day I realized that I do have something behind my desk. The ones that come in on a daily basis don’t even see it anymore, but visitors tend to be…well…taken aback when they look down. They see just the tips of some fingers sticking out from under my desk. I bought the “thing” for my dad after his stroke. He was in a nursing home and although he couldn’t speak, there was nothing wrong with his sense of humor. I would stick it in one of his dresser drawers and just wait. Usually one of the nursing aides would need to get into the drawers for something and there it would be. Scare the living daylights out of some of them! Then they would turn to dad and find him just laughing away. They also knew it couldn’t have been him to do the deed. They were known to take it to other rooms to scare someone else half to death. After Dad passed away, I took it to my office. Again, it doesn’t necessarily stay under my desk and has been known to find new locations to lie in wait. So, if you stop by my office, and look down at the floor under my desk you just might be introduced to our extra hired “hand.”

The re-arranging of the Fiction collection upstairs is done for now. Keep in mind that the mysteries are now shelved with the regular fiction books. All the fiction books are shelved alphabetically by the author’s last name. There is a “Mystery” sticker on the spine of the book, so our patrons can still look for mysteries.

Another project in the Fiction section that is “on-going” is the series project. Janie and Diane are slowly trying to shelve series books together and in the proper order. This is a REALLY tough assignment. Often authors don’t know they have even started a series until the first one is a big hit and readers want more. So, it may be a couple titles later before we see that a particular title that once was on its own, is now book 3 in a series. Then there are the authors that have many different series and we have to be alert that we get them with the right series. Thank goodness for the Internet to help us keep this straight!

To all the Mothers have a great day, and… Keep Thinking Libraries!