As I write this, our Congress is debating our national financial future. Our President and the Speaker of the House have gone on television to state their viewpoints of what needs to be done in this crisis. Libraries have traditional sought Continue reading The Big Short
West Elmira Library has been successfully set up to email notices. We now send notification of patron holds to their email. Also, we are sending courtesy notices to notify a patron that they have something coming due in three days. Continue reading West Elmira – Check Your E-Mail & Check Out This Book!
We got a call from the Southern Tier Rose Society last month to let us know that June has been named National Rose Month to recognize American grown roses, our national floral emblem. The International Cut Flower Growers tell us that roses Continue reading National Rose Month
In the spring, a young man’s fancy turns to — baseball; at least my eleven-year-old grandson’s does. We have lots of new books on baseball this year but the writers definitely seem to like the history of baseball. I’m sending Continue reading Baseball!
I love a good mystery. To be honest I even love a bad mystery. I have seen every episode of Scooby Doo and Murder She Wrote, even the cross over episodes with Magnum P.I. (forgot about those didn’t you). I Continue reading There’s Just Something About a British Mystery
We’ve been doing a lot of talking at the Library about the unpleasant (to me) fact that nonfiction books are not circulating as much as they used to. Some of us comment that people are using the internet and videos Continue reading Libraries Still Have Good Information!
As a Youth Services staff member, I have been whittling down the list of must-reads recommended by both book review periodicals and fellow Juvenile and YA readers. I have been mired in teen angst, hurled through recycled adventures, and generally Continue reading Dreamdark – Blackbringer, by Laini Taylor
March is Irish-American Heritage Month, by Presidential Proclamation! So it was no surprise that Maeve Binchy’s (my favorite Irish writer) latest book, Minding Frankie arrived at the library on March 1. I took it home and read it in one Continue reading March – Irish-American Heritage
Cherries in Winter – Book Review Author Suzan Colon draws upon her mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother’s legendary resilience and recipes to sustain her after she loses her magazine job. Her family’s practical wisdom and stories of how to survive spiritually, Continue reading A Winter Read
This year, we put up a display on the second floor with books on one side being the traditional romance of the holiday such as the love letters of Abigail and John Adams, My Dearest Friend : letters of Abigail Continue reading February – Valentine’s Day