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to the
May
2008
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Memorial
Day, May 26
Spout
Springs Grand Opening Announced
Keynote
Speaker Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle
The
Hall County Library System is delighted to announce the grand opening ceremony
for the Spout Springs Branch Library will be held on Saturday, May
24.
Festivities
will begin at 10 a.m. and will culminate with the ceremony, which will be begin at 1:00 p.m.
The Keynote Speaker for the ceremony will be Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle.
Other
special events for the whole family will begin at 10 a.m. Exciting activities
planned include a guest appearance
by Clifford the Big Red Dog, storytimes, craft
activities, food and drinks, inflatable fun and
more.
Blood
Drive
Stop
by the Blackshear Place Branch on Saturday, May 10 to take part in a blood drive
sponsored by Life South. Donations
will be accepted from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
New
Book Club at Blackshear Place
The
Blackshear Place Branch will hold the first meeting of their new Book Club on
Tuesday, May 20 at 6 p.m. The group will be discussing The Know-It-All by A.J. Jacobs. Part memoir, part Cliff's Notes to every topic under
the sun. For more information, contact Janine
Cline
at 770-532-3311 ext. 155.
The
library system offers free computer classes including Introduction to
Email, Introduction to the Internet, Advanced Email,
Introduction
to MS PowerPoint, Word Processing Basics and
Introduction
to MS Publisher.
Classes are taught by trained library staff and are free to the public. Classes
will be held in the computer training labs at the Blackshear Place Branch and
the Gainesville Branch. For more
information please click here
or call 770-532-3311.
In
the Gallery
May-June
2008
The art of Cheryl Hardin will be featured in the gallery at Hall County Library/Headquarters from May 15 through June 30
In
creating unexpected combinations of colors, shapes, and ideas, Cheryl Hardin’s
landscape, seascape, still life, and figurative paintings are captured on canvas
in fluid and impressionistic style. She works in oils, using both palette
knife and brush to create a unique combination of realism and moderate
impressionism. Bold strokes and colors create mood, balance and emotion in
her work; imagery spills onto the canvas as she paints.
Ms.
Hardin began painting professionally in 2000. She is an award-winning
artist and has trained with some of the finest contemporary artists in the
nation, including Roseta Santiago, Pris Butler, Bill Davidson, Ann Templeton, Dee Beard Dean,
and Ken Wallin. She is currently a member of the
Quinlan Visual Arts Center and The Art League of Gainesville, Georgia.
The next pajama storytimes will be held at 6:30 pm on May 5 at the
Gainesville
Branch and May 13 at the
Blackshear Place
Branch. The whole family is invited.
Children may wear their jammies and bring their favorite bedtime buddy.
Click
here for a schedule of summer storytimes.
The Reading Patch
Club
(for independent readers in grades K-5) and the Jump Start Reading
Club
(for children who cannot read on their
own) are in session through May 25 (the day before the Memorial Day holiday).
Children who have not completed a patch they are currently working on may finish
reading during the summer and receive their patch when the club begins again the
day after Labor Day (September 2). Jump Start readers who have at least 6
stickers will receive a gold seal for their reading
logs.
Summer Reading
Program will be here soon, beginning on June
2 and running through July 25. Register in any Hall County Library branch.
Activities begin the week of June 9. Flyers will be available soon in all
branches. In the meantime, click on the link above to see what’s happening this
summer as we “Catch the Reading Bug” and have a “Metamorphosis@Your
Library.”
New
titles for children and teens
No Biting,
Louise
by Margie Palatini
At the urging of her family, Louise, a
young alligator, tries hard to kick her biting habit.
(EFC)
The Best Mouse
Cookie
by Laura Numeroff
The mouse from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie bakes his
own cookies in his own little mouse house.
(EFC)
Just
Grace
by Charlise Mericle
Harper
Misnamed by her teacher,
seven-year-old Just Grace prides herself on being empathetic, but when she tries
to help a neighbor feel better, her good intentions backfire.
(JFC)
How to Cheat a Dragon’s Curse: The Heroic Misadventures of Hiccup the
Viking as told to Cressida Cowell
When Horrendous Haddock has to rescue
his best friend from a deadly disease that can only be cured by a rare and
almost impossible to find…potato, he has to dodge Sharkworms, Doomfangs, and
Hooligans in order to find one. (JFC)
Keturah and Lord
Death
by Martine Leavitt
When sixteen-year-old Keturah follows a legendary hart into Lord Temsland’s forest she becomes lost, and eventually Lord
Death comes to claim her; but when she is able to charm him with her story, she
gains a reprieve of 24 hours, if she can find her one true love.
(YAF)
Peak by Roland
Smith
A fourteen-year-old boy attempts to be
the youngest person to reach the top of Mount Everest.
(YAF)
Kids
and Kritters
Kelley
Uber of the Hall County Humane Society will visit
Blackshear Place Library on Thursday, May 22 at 3:00 p.m. Come join her for
stories and find out what surprise guests she will bring for her “Kids and Kritters” program.
Doggie
Tales
Children
are invited to “Read to the Dogs” at our Blackshear Place and Clermont
libraries. The program is held each Wednesday at the Clermont Branch at
3pm. Blackshear Place will hold their May session on Tuesday, May 6. To save a
spot for your child to read to one of our four legged visitors, come by your
library branch or call to make an appointment. You may also email the
Clermont
or Blackshear
Place
Branch. The dogs are registered with Atlanta Therapaws, Therapy Dogs international. Your child will
remember this for a lifetime!
New
titles in the adult area:
Deep
Dish
by Mary Kay Andrews
The Cooking Channel is
looking for new star, and Gina Foxton, a former
runner-up to Miss Teen Vidalia Onion, knows she is the right girl for the job.
Johnny
One-Eye by Jerome Charyn
Set in Revolutionary War
era Manhattan, readers are treated to the adventures of double agent John
Stocking.
Certain
Girls by Jennifer
Weiner
Cannie Shapiro is back 13
years after her bestselling debut novel made her a success.
When Asia Was the World
by Stewart
Gordon
“Stewart Gordon has
fashioned a fascinating and unique look at Asia from A.D. 700 to 1500, a time
when Asia was the world, by describing the personal journeys of Asia’s many
travelers--the merchants who traded spices along the Silk Road, the apothecaries
who exchanged medicine and knowledge from China to the Middle East, and the
philosophers and holy men who crossed continents to explore and exchange ideas,
books, science, and culture.”
Veganomicon: The Ultimate Vegan
Cookbook by Isa Chandra Moskowitz and Terry Hope
Romero
The
ultimate guide to cooking vegan from the authors of Vegan with a Vengeance and Vegan Cupcakes Take over the
World.
Pandemonium: Bird Flu,
Mad Cow Disease, and Other Biological Plagues of the 21st Century
by Andrew Nikiforuk
“… a clear
eyed-guide to instability, unpredictability, and the hidden biological
terrorists on our doorstep.”
Scrapbooking
Workshop
There
will be ongoing Scrapbooking Workshops once a month at the Blackshear Place
Branch. The next meeting is an all
day session scheduled for Saturday, May 3
from 10 a.m. to 4:30pm. Experienced scrapbooker Arneshia Echols will
demonstrate useful techniques and creative ideas to showcase family memories or
create clever pages for your memorabilia. Experienced scrappers and “newbies” are welcome, but advanced registration is required.
Beginners may purchase an optional starter kit for $12, payable upon
registration. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own photos or clippings.
Please call 770-532-3311 ext. 151 for more
information.
Craft
Classes
Craft
Classes
will continue at Hall County Library/Headquarters in the Meeting Room the last
Thursday of each month. Jewelry Making is the
current series being taught. The next class will meet on Thursday, May
29th at 5:30 p.m. The classes are free of charge and open to
the public. You can bring your own supplies or purchase them the night of
the class. Space is limited, so please call to register at 770-532-331,
ext. 114.
Donating
a book to the library in honor or memory of a loved one is a great way to show
affection. Titles of suggested book donations are listed on the library’s
Amazon.com Wish List. For the price
of a book, anyone can help the library keep the most current materials
available. To view the list, see the library
website
and follow the link to amazon.com.
Book donors may request that a commemorative plate be placed inside the
front cover of the book in recognition of a loved one or to honor a special
occasion. The Hall County Library System is a non-profit government agency
and a charitable 501(C) (3) organization; therefore, all donations are tax
deductible. The library is pleased
to announce that it has now received 200 plus books through this
program.
Dear
Patron,
Most of us think no further than our
life experiences. What we learn in school or the street is what we base our
beliefs on. Many of us have purchased books from bookstores or maybe Amazon and
know how much they cost. We feel the library probably spends even less per title
since it receives a better discount. We certainly cannot understand why a
library book would cost more than one acquired from the bookstore. Sometimes
that is a fair evaluation but when averaging things out over a year
not.
This library system’s replacement
policy for lost or damaged items calls for book value to be the most current
listed on Amazon or another web service plus a $10.00 restocking fee. Fair? Let
us look what it costs to place a typical adult bestseller on a library
shelf.
$25.00 with 44% discount
$14.00
Book review – 4 minutes to read the
short review and select the title
$1.00
Generate order – 4 minutes to enter order and electronically check
$1.00
catalog and previous orders to make sure not
a duplicate
Place order – 2 minutes
$.50
Receive order – 2 minutes to check it
against Purchase Order to verify
$.50
that it was
ordered
Check item – 2 minutes to make sure it
was processed and cataloged $.50
properly (more time to correct a
mistake)
Pay invoice – 1 minute
$.25
Vendor charge to catalog and process
book
$3.75
(processing
includes property stamp, plastic jacket, bar code, security
tag, spine label, add to library database
and Worldcat
database)
Activate to make available to patron
and shelve the book – 2 minutes
$.50
Cost of typical adult book
$22.00
Note that discounts range from 20% for
popular audiovisual material packaged and sold in a library friendly format to
27% for children’s books in library binding. Reference items are usually
discounted at 10%. These items are approximately 40% of what we
order.
Let us say you borrow and lose that
adult book and do not come clean until you receive a notice from the collection
agency.
Collection agency fee
$8.00
Phone calls, staff handling transaction – 4 minutes
$1.00
Any time a problem arises with a book
there could be several conversations, the patron can request we check
our shelves, we change the status of the book to ‘reported lost.’ We sometimes send out emails, voice
mails and additional letters. Any lost book can easily add to staff time in
trying to assist the patron in remedying the problem.
I hope you now understand that our
library might save a few dollars on the typical lost book transaction over the
list price of the book and cost of adding it back to the collection but the
process is so fraught with problems that the taxpayer is lucky if we can recover
the cost of their investment in every
transaction.
I hope to catch you in the stacks
reading.
Adrian Mixson
Library
Director
To
get more information on your library account, please call the library’s
Circulation Manager at 770-532-3311 ext. 110 or visit the
library
website
and enter your account through the
library's catalog. You will need your library card and pin number, which
may be obtained by visiting any library branch. You may also email the
Circulation
Manager
for additional information.
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Summer
Fun
Summer Fun for
Kids: From webmd.com,
great information on keeping kids of all ages busy and happy while school is
out.
Georgia
Travel: If gas prices are keeping you close to
home this summer, check out this guide for tourism in our own home state.
Summer Safety
Tips: Important information from the American
Red Cross on keeping your family safe during the summer
months.
Editors
For
more information please call (770) 532-3311 ext. 134 or visit our website at
http://www.hallcountylibrary.org/
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