Summer Preview

 

4-12-2024

This is the end of National Library Week. To celebrate we answered 71 phone calls on Monday explaining either yes we had limited number of eclipse glasses available or no the library was out but more would be available at the eclipse event at Sunset Park in Elkhorn. The switch from yes to no took 34 minutes. Every single one of our reoccurring programs took place this week including the Library Board and Strategic Planning Committee meetings. O’Leary routed out our sewer line. DPW installed the last book shelf in the lower level and removed two incredibly heavy unused file cabinets. If you need anything, we’ll be dozing at our desks.

In between programs we’ve been preparing for this year’s summer reading program. The last of our 1:30 Monday programs have been booked. In June alone we will have TnZ Magic, Snake Discovery, and Mad Science. The first two have been here before. The magic show was a big hit last year. Snake Discovery is always a favorite while Mad Science is new. In July we have musicians Fox & Branch, rocket launching, FFA petting zoo, and the pizza party.

New this year will also be a kid’s parade. Miss Maria will provide crafting materials to decorate bikes, strollers, or wagons. The parade route will begin in our parking lot, pass in front of the high school, cross the street to the middle school, and end at Playmore Park. The plan is to keep it on the sidewalk so little ones remain safe. The parade will take place on July 1^st which is the Monday we don’t normally hold programs thinking families like to travel over the 4^th of July. This year the timing is a bit odd with the Lion’s carnival and parade in June, so we’ll keep the celebration going into July.

Among the programs that met this week were both the 2^nd Tuesday and 2^nd Friday Adult Book Clubs, or as I like to call them Tuesdays with Books and 2^nd Friday’s Book Club. That means May books are available. We’ll be reading The Book of Lost Friends by Lisa Wingate. The book tells the story of three women searching for family in the post-Civil War South. Wingate is also known for Before We Were Yours which told the tale of impoverished children stolen from their parents and sent to a Tennessee Children’s Society orphanage. Both books reveal their historical stories through the investigation of a modern character. I’ll make certain to have a tissue handy.

 Reading Now: On Censorship: A Public Librarian Examines Cancel Culture in the US by LaRue, Last Friends by Jane Gardam (3rd book in the Old Filth trilogy: first was a book club book), Little Sister by Gytha Lodge 4th book in Jonah Sheens series)

Listening to Now:  Shattered by Kevin Hearne (7th book in the Iron Druid Chronicles)