Day One - Carpet Installation

Today the carpet is being put down! It is in place in the children's area and reference section, and now our entrance way is being prepared. Staff have cleared away all the computers, CDs, videos and DVDs to make way for the continuing carpet installation. We are using every possible space to store furniture and shelving including the non-fiction aisles (see photo). Linda Nicholson, Lebanon County Libraries District Library Consultant and County Cataloger, is also joining in capturing some of the action using a digital video camera. (You can see her in the second from the last photo between the empty white shelves). Who knows maybe the library will make YouTube one day? And finally, (in the last photo) checkout the almost completed section of carpeting in the children's area as the library's director, Jayne Tremaine looks on.

Children's Books on the Move! New Carpet Preview!

On Friday more moving took place this time in the children's department. Right now all the children's books are stacked high in the youth services office and in the storytime room - thanks to all our staff members who helped with the move. Pictured in the orange summer reading shirts are Sarah Annibali, Head of Youth Services, and Caridad (or Carol) Yeagley, Head of Bilingual Services. The pictures on the very bottom of this blog post show the rolls of rug and the color that will be placed in the reference and children's area. More updates on the progress later!

Books Everywhere - Sale & Reference Move

Be sure to join us at our book sale starting today at 8:30AM in the library's community room! Yesterday volunteers feverishly unpacked 50 or so boxes of books and sorted them neatly. Most books are priced at $1! Be sure to stop by Friday (8:30-5pm) or Saturday (10am-2pm) and get some great reads. Remember prices will be slashed Saturday $5 for a whole box of books! More books to be added as the sale continues. Many thanks to all our volunteers who helped unpack and sort books - pictured are Pat Hagens (with books in hand) & Bobbie Diefenderfer (waving on more boxes).

And Did all the library's reference books disappear? No silly, they've just been moved for our new carpet! (If you notice from the pictures all the reference books are now in the Library Director's office - you can see her waving from her desk in the third photo). Don't forget the library will be closed Aug. 26 thru Sept. 4 (reopening Sept. 5) for the installation! We are sorry to inconvenience patrons during the next few days before our closing, but the reference and children's sections must be cleared in order for the new carpet to be installed starting bright and early Monday morning. Please bear with us! And thanks to our faithful moving crew (pictured below) - Sarah Annibali, Head of Youth Services; Jayne Tremaine, Library Director; and Michelle Hawk, Head of Reference Services.

Summer is (Almost) Over

80 children have now completed the library's summer reading program this year. On Tuesday 49 of those finishers came to an ice cream party at the library. These guys worked hard all summer, reading, doing activities and coming to library programs to earn points.

Almost 400 children, 250 teens and 300 adults

participated in the summer reading programs this year!

At the party we made crafts,

ate ice cream sundaes

and read books,

sometimes all at the same time!

Start a Conversation!

It's One Book One Community time again! This year's title is...drumroll please...The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon!

The purpose of One Book One Community is to bring people together to discuss a book and themes that are relevant to everyone. What's the book about?

"Christopher John Francis Boone knows all the countries of the world and their capitals and every prime number up to 7,057. He relates well to animals but has no understanding of human emotions. He cannot stand to be touched. Although gifted with a superbly logical brain, Christopher is autistic. Everyday interactions and admonishments have little meaning for him. Routine, order, and predictability shelter him from the messy wider world. Then, at fifteen, Christopher's carefully constructed world falls apart when he finds his neighbor's dog, Wellington, impaled on a garden fork, and he is initially blamed for the killing.
Christopher decides that he will track down the real killer and turns to his favorite fictional character, the impeccably logical Sherlock Holmes, for inspiration. But the investigation leads him down some unexpected paths and ultimately brings him face to face with the dissolution of his parents' marriage. As he tries to deal with the crisis within his own family, we are drawn into the workings of Christopher’s mind." (www.oboc.org/Curious.htm)

Programs will be offered at the library during October, but stop in now to check out the book and get free bookmarks and window clings, along with a One Book One Community totebag for only $10!

John Vavrous

I am writing with some extremely sad news. Former library volunteer Lee Vavrous called the library on Monday morning to inform us that John Vavrous, her husband and one of our most active library volunteers, had passed away Sunday July 29. A service for John will be held on Friday August 3, 2007 at 2pm at Christman's Funeral Home here in Lebanon. For more details on John's life and the funeral arrangements please check the local newspaper article http://www.legacy.com/LDNews/Obituaries.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=91731956

For those of you who did not know John, he was a library volunteer for what seems like forever – his and Lee's service to the library and the community pre-date the current library building! I have attached a picture of both John & Lee from back in the 1980’s so you can put a face with a name. Most recently John was our Tape Doctor, repairing all VHS and audiobooks that landed in repair or the “Tape Hospital.” John was a skilled handyman and technician saving the library thousands of dollars over the years with all his repairs. In addition to this, he also worked at the circulation desk in years past, and reigned over the world of AV shelving for decades. He and Lee gave thousands of hours of volunteer service to the library and were a steady force the library could always count on. In addition to library volunteer work, John was also active in The Friends of the Library in years past. John was a great and unique person who will be greatly missed!