Summer is Coming! @ Your Library!

Thinking Library!

Carole Stanger

May 21, 2011

New Books Upstairs @ the library!

Turn Left at Orion by Guy Consolmagno

200 Years of Dolls by Dawn Herlocher

Backyard Astronomer’s Guide by Terence Dickinson

Quilting Answer Book by Barbara Weiland Talbert

How Things Work in the Yard by Lisa Campbell Ernst

Snowman by Jo Nesbo

Those in Peril by Wilbur Smith

Buried Prey by John Sandford

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, June 13, 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 Atlantic Public Library has a copier available for public use? It is downstairs and just inside the doors to the children’s department in the right hand corner. There is a charge per sheet and can be paid at the checkout desk there.

Behind My Desk… Last week area librarians met at the Atlantic Public Library for a “subcenter” meeting. We are trying to find our “strengths” and collaborate on a project. I’m with the technology group (there’s a surprise!). We hope to put together some online tutorials (some with handouts) for our patrons to be able to learn computer basics. There are always people who want to use computers for email and basic programs. I’ve been searching places on the Internet that have already “invented the wheel” so we don’t have to! There are some good sources when I started looking.

We are starting to get ready for summer at the library. Summer reading program starts May 31. Then the library programs start in June. Another “hot spot of activity” is the Genealogy/Local History area. Genealogists from all over the country start taking trips to find their ancestors and our Genealogy volunteers find them coming to our county. So far this year they have seen people from Maine, Idaho, Texas, and Kansas (not to mention various parts of Iowa!).

Congratulations to our staff member Kayla Bonnesen for her graduation from Atlantic High School! We wish her the very best for the future.

Don’t forget the One-Stop Registration nights at the Washington School Gym from 6-8 p.m.! After those nights, you can register at the downstairs checkout desk. Every year I try to note to parents to encourage summer time reading. There are terrific books out there and reading is a necessary skill that needs practice for a young person. It can be fun, and a great entertainment tool on those long, hot summer days or on those “thundery”, wet summer days! The library is the perfect place in the summer to learn to enjoy reading.

I should also mention that all of the libraries in Cass County (Anita, Atlantic, Cumberland, Griswold, Lewis, and Massena) have special programs and plans set for the summer--be sure to check out your own library!

Have a nice and safe Memorial Day weekend, and… Keep Thinking Libraries!