Get Ready for School!

Thinking Library!

Carole Stanger

August 6, 2011

New Books Upstairs @ the library!

Split Second by Catherine Coulter

Hotwire by Alex Kava

Burnt Mountain by Anne Rivers Siddens

Then Came You by Jennifer Weiner

Silent Killer by Beverly Barton

Dick Francis’s Gamble by Felix Francis

Justice by Karen Robards

Happy Birthday by Danielle Steel

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, August 8, 5:30 p.m. upstairs

• Story Time Programs for 3, 4, & 5 year olds will start back up on Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 7 & 8 from 10-11 a.m.

Did You Know… that there were 410 boys and girls registered for the Atlantic Summer Library Programs?

Behind My Desk… I mentioned in an earlier column that the Cass County Library Association is planning an “All Cass County Reads” set of programs starting this September. We have decided to read Driving to Clarinda by Rosanne Bachman. This will be our first year of trying something like this on a local level, so be patient with us! As of now, there will be five different programs dealing with this book. The first program will be a Library and Lunch Program at the Anita Public Library on Wednesday, Sept. 21 from 12 noon to 1 p.m. Roseanne will be the guest speaker that day! Extra copies of the book will be available at the host library the month prior and up to its event.

We know quite a few of you have already had a chance to read the book, so we are hoping for nice attendance at our events. Atlantic will have a program next spring in March. Griswold and Lewis will co-host the final program in May.

The Cass County Genealogical Society is sending out a request for Javelins for the following years to fill in their collection. They need 1996, 1997, 1999 and 2007 through 2011. Anyone wishing to donate a copy would be greatly appreciated.

The 2011 Summer Library Programs for Atlantic are officially done! What a summer! Thank you to all the parents and care-givers who brought their children to our programs and helped in any way.

I finished the State annual library report for this past fiscal year. There are ten sections to that thing, and every year “they” tweek it just a little bit. I did pretty well, though. It’s totally done online now. I still somehow manage to have my desk covered with paper! How does that happen????

Next week the State Fair starts. For those planning on going, have a great time and stay cool… and Keep Thinking Libraries!